Daring School Fantasy Soccer predictions for the 2026 season

With school soccer mercifully beginning again up this weekend, we are going to lastly get to see how these newly constructed rosters carry out in actuality versus in idea. Since Yahoo School Fantasy drafts are in full swing, it is time to get away some daring CFF-oriented predictions for the 2026 season. 

Jadan Baugh leads the nation in speeding yardage

A robust-yet-graceful Man Beast, Baugh is 6’1/228, squats 565 kilos and has 4.57s 40 velocity. He was held again by the hapless Billy Napier final season however managed to attain 17+ fantasy factors in his final six contests following Napier’s dismissal. New Florida head coach Jon Sumrall is well-known for his affinity of utilizing his major working again as a bell cow, as is evidenced by his prolific utilization of Kimani Vidal again at Troy, with Vidal main all the nation in speeding underneath Sumrall’s tutelage.

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I believe Sumrall unleashes Baugh on the SEC, to devastating impact, with the longer term top-50 NFL draft choose lastly rising because the star he was destined to be. Baugh is a serious precedence for me and effectively value a first-round fantasy draft choice with the workload he’s projected to obtain. 

Jayden ‘Duke’ Scott takes the ACC by storm and averages 20 Fantasy PPG

Scott averaged 6.1 yards per contact with a pristine 94% catch charge as Hollywood Smothers’ backup final yr, and inherits the Wolfpack’s beginning gig heading into the season. The numbers have been recounted within the indispensable Feldman Freaks Listing, with Scott reportedly working a 4.35s 40-yard sprint whereas squatting 575 with 20 bench reps. These are uncommon numbers for a 5’10/235-pounder and effectively past what Smothers is able to. NC State dodges Miami, Clemson and Notre Dame (honorary ACC member), leaving Scott to feast on the tender underbelly of the ACC. I believe Scott clears the elite 20 PPG mark and goes on to have a top-10 School Fantasy marketing campaign. 

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Ryan Coleman-Williams is a top-five scoring huge receiver 

The uncomfortable fact is that Coleman-Williams’ 10 drops sabotaged crucial alternatives and turned a promising sophomore season right into a disappointment. The expertise didn’t vanish; he nonetheless averaged 6.8 yards after the catch, displaying the identical acceleration and open-field creativity that powered his freshman breakout. Now that explosive sophomore QB Keelon Russell has secured the beginning job, Coleman-Williams has an Elite-11-winning sign caller to work with.

Alabama’s most tough defensive check all season comes October 11 versus Georgia, with the rest of the schedule being very favorable from a fantasy perspective. The information out of camp is that RCW has regained his freshman magic when he reclassified as a 17-year outdated as a way to play in 2024. I believe Coleman-Williams will appropriate the case of the yips he had in 2025 and ascend again into the higher crust of P4 huge receivers, ending as a top-five scorer on the place.

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Jamal Roberts finishes as a top-15 CFF working again

Some of the vital contingency backs in fantasy soccer after averaging 6.17 yards per carry, Roberts additionally caught 17 passes for 139 yards and averaged 10.51 per sport regardless of being a backup. Roberts’ emergence as a top quality RB2 averaging 0.97 fantasy factors per contact reveals he can help Missouri’s offense if requested to steer it, and with breaking information indicating Ahmad Hardy is about to overlook at the very least the primary sport, we may have a scenario the place the unlucky gunshot sufferer is held again for a lot of the season till he’s utterly wholesome as a way to shield his NFL Draft inventory.

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I believe Roberts will get the total workload for a Mizzou squad that averaged 228 speeding yards per sport final season and returns three starters on a devastating offensive line that boasts 118 whole profession line begins. Whoever will get that beginning job goes to provide, full cease, and I believe that participant is Jamal Roberts. 

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Omarion Miller takes the WR1 job at ASU and is a top-10 fantasy wideout

I am a longtime fan of BC-to-ASU switch WR Reed Harris and his skill to win downfield on the boundary. Nonetheless, after watching Miller it grew to become clear that he’s merely working at a distinct degree and is deserving of Jordyn Tyson’s excessive quantity, alpha-WR1 function in Kenny Dillingham’s offense.

Miller got here on robust in his last seven video games, accruing 608 of his 808 yards and 32 of his 45 receptions, as he took over the Buffs receiving room whereas cashing in seven touchdowns over that span. His 34% deep goal charge and three.4 fantasy factors per contact common foreshadows an enormous leap in manufacturing now that he has a confirmed offensive guru steering the ship. Think about what Miller is able to now that he is away from the Colorado circus, the place QB JuJu Lewis mentioned they have been primarily winging it on offense final yr with no actual construction.

Miller is a league winner who’s in some way being chosen within the Spherical 8-10 vary in most Yahoo Customary Leagues. 

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Publish-hype sleeper QB Nico Iamaleava tears up the Large Ten and averages 25 fantasy factors per sport

Iamleava was behind the 8-ball final yr after transferring late within the cycle from Tennessee to UCLA in a contentious QB swap that despatched UCLA sign caller Joey Aguilar packing to Knoxville. To compound issues, former head coach Deshaun Foster was inarguably one of many worst P4 teaching hires of the final decade, leaving Iamleava with out construction and course. The Bruins introduced in new head coach Bob Chesney from James Madison, the place he took the Dukes to the CFP Playoff and guided QB Alonza Barnett to a wonderful 23.8 fantasy PPG season.

Skillset-wise, Iamleava is actually a souped-up model of Barnett and was the one returning quarterback within the Energy 4 who rushed for 400+ yards and didn’t eclipse the 20 PPG threshold. As somebody who attended a number of UCLA video games over Foster’s tenure, and was additionally current on the Bruins spring sport, I can say with confidence that Chesney has utterly modified the environment across the program. With Chesney resetting the roster by way of the switch portal in the identical method that his JMU predecessor Curt Cignetti did at Indiana, I believe UCLA hits the bottom working and immediately turns into a reputable Large Ten program, with Nico rising from the post-hype-sleeper doldrums to grow to be a top-20 scoring quarterback and CFF weapon who clears the 25 PPG barrier.