Three bounce-back players your league gave up on too early
Jalen Williams, Domantas Sabonis and Coby White all had seasons wrecked by injury or circumstance, and our projections have two of them well ahead of where drafters are taking them.
By James · 2 min read
Jalen WilliamsDomantas SabonisCoby WhitePhotos: NBAProA bad season does more damage to a player's draft price than a good season does to raise it, because a manager who was burned remembers it for a year and a manager who was rewarded tends to assume the next season will be the same. That asymmetry makes bounce-back candidates one of the most reliable sources of value in any draft, provided the reason for the bad season has actually gone away.
- Jalen Williams OKC46thvs 28th
- Domantas Sabonis SAC36thvs 38th
- Coby White CHA99thvs 88th
These are three players whose last season was shaped by something specific, an injury in two cases and a poor situation in the third, and whose projections for this season look like the players they were before. In two of the three cases our board is ahead of the market, and in the third it is behind it, which is worth knowing too.
Every player in this story is on the fantasy basketball rankings and the 2026-27 projections, and the NBA depth charts show where each one stands in his team’s rotation tonight.
