NBA Draft 2026: Unveiling Three Hidden Gems Set to Ignite the First Round Chaos
Coward was fairly unknown early in the process, but there was a lot of buzz around him in the months leading up to the 2025 draft. He ended up being selected 11th by the Memphis Grizzlies and is having an excellent rookie season.
Nowadays, even someone as unheralded as Coward being selected in the NBA Draft Lottery is a rare sight. With so much information on every player, the true sleepers of the modern draft are often hidden in plain sight.
There are good players on good teams who are well-known for their college basketball production but are being underrated as draft prospects. We can find these diamonds in the rough by comparing where players are projected to go in public mock drafts and comparing them to our draft model, which projects a player’s NBA DRIP (our all-in-one metric that rates players based on box score, play-by-play and lineup data) using college DRIP and other factors.


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