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Taelon Peter

Taelon Peter is a developmental two-way shooter whose second-year contract gives him a path, but not enough healthy-roster minutes for redraft value.

Team: Indiana Pacers · SG · Age 24 · Base role: second-year two-way; zero simultaneous healthy-night minutes

Projection card

GP MPG 3PM PTS REB AST STL BLK FG% FT% TO
30 7.0 0.5 2.4 0.9 0.5 0.3 0.1 .430 .750 0.4

Nine-category: no rank. Points: two-way depth only. Dynasty: top 280-420 in very deep formats.

Why the line looks like this

Peter appeared in 38 NBA games, averaging 4.5/1.6/1.1 in 12.9 minutes, and produced 14.8/5.1/3.9 with 1.6 steals for the Boom. His official review identifies a second year on the two-way. Summer League offered more creation reps, but those receive little statistical weight. Pacers player review · 2026 Summer League roster

Redraft, dynasty, and scenarios

Confidence

Roster Minutes Rates Availability
Medium-high Low Medium-low High

Career record

Pre-NBA: An unusual five-year, three-level path. Tennessee Tech 2020-21: six games, 1.7 points. Dropped to Division II Arkansas Tech for three seasons — 10.0 points in 2021-22, 15.5 points and 5.5 rebounds in 2022-23, then 18.5 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.3 assists on .499/.409/.868 in 2023-24, winning Great American Conference Player of the Year and first-team All-GAC. Transferred up to Liberty for 2024-25 and came off the bench in 33 of 35 games: 13.7 points and 4.0 rebounds on .578 from the field and .453 from three, good for Conference USA Sixth Man of the Year, third-team All-CUSA, and the national lead in true shooting at 72.4%. Draft: 2025, second round, 54th overall, Indiana; signed a two-way contract with the Noblesville Boom.

Season Age Team GP MPG PTS REB AST STL BLK 3PM FG% FT% TO
2025-26 23 IND 38 12.9 4.5 1.6 1.1 0.7 0.1 1.1 .380 .625 0.7
Career 38 12.9 4.5 1.6 1.1 0.7 0.1 1.1 .380 .625 0.7

He shot .328 from three on 3.3 attempts as a rookie. His G League production with Noblesville is not verified — sources disagree, and the figure is discussed under Trajectory below.

Durability: One NBA season, 38 of 82 games, all of it a function of two-way status and call-up scheduling rather than injury. Nothing to flag on health.

Trajectory: The draft case was shooting efficiency, and the rookie year did not reproduce it — a .453 three-point mark at Liberty on elite true shooting became .328 in the NBA, with free-throw shooting collapsing from .773 to .625 on tiny volume. The offsetting point is that he was already 23 as a rookie and had spent three of his five college seasons in Division II, so the NBA sample is his first real test against this level. Indiana kept him for a second two-way year. The 2025-26 Boom line reported in his Pacers player review (14.8 points, 5.1 rebounds, 3.9 assists, 1.6 steals) does not match the figure returned by other trackers (13.4/4.5/3.4), so treat the exact G League production as unconfirmed while the shape — lead-guard usage with real steal production — is consistent across both. He reaches fantasy relevance only if he survives the Braden Smith two-way squeeze, wins the call-up order ahead of the other developmental guards, and the three-point rate climbs back toward his college level.

Career sources: ESPN career stats · Wikipedia · Liberty draft release · Pacers player review

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