2026-27 projection
| GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | 3PM | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78 | 27.0 | .440 | .850 | 2.4 | 11.4 | 5.6 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.8 |
- Role: starting power forward in the base case; Harris is the named alternative.
- 9-cat: 100-150.
- Points: top 140-190.
- Dynasty: 220-300; Hashtag expert No. 261.
Role case
Champagnie played all 82 games for a second consecutive season and averaged 11.1 points, 5.8 rebounds, 2.4 threes, 0.8 steals and 0.5 blocks in 27.6 minutes. That low-turnover, five-category combination is quietly useful when the minutes clear. ESPN stats, accessed 2026-07-18
San Antonio rewarded the breakout with a reported three-year, $45 million agreement after declining his old option. The NBA release noted 185 consecutive regular-season games, the league's second-longest active streak at signing. NBA, updated 2026-06-30
Tobias Harris supplies more self-creation and natural power-forward size; Champagnie supplies more movement shooting and continuity, and he is the incumbent. He started 68 of 82 games, started the Finals and played 30.7 minutes across 23 playoff games, and the only post-free-agency public depth chart projects Fox-Castle-Vassell-Champagnie-Wembanyama with Harris backing him up. Harris's two-year, $30.8M deal is reserve money next to Champagnie's three-year, $45M. The San Antonio Spurs model gives him 27 minutes, 18 of them at the four. Air Alamo, accessed 2026-07-18
Correction 2026-07-18: this file previously called Champagnie "first wing off the bench in the base case" and projected 24 minutes, deferring to Harris on positional logic. The continuity, contract and depth-chart evidence all point the other way; the base case is now Champagnie starting at the four at 27 minutes, with Harris as the alternative rather than the default.
Ceiling and floor
- Ceiling: holds the starting four for 30 minutes and returns top-90 value through 2.7 threes, six rebounds and 1.3 stocks.
- Floor: loses the job to Harris in camp and settles at 21-22 minutes as a shooting specialist on the standard-league margin.
- Best builds: threes and low turnovers; limited assists make him poor as a generic “balanced” pick.
- Dynasty: the contract raises the role floor, but age and low creation cap upside.
Career record
Pre-NBA: Bishop Loughlin Memorial in Brooklyn, where he averaged 17.2 points as a senior and made First Team All-CHSAA AA. St. John's, 2019-20 through 2021-22: 9.9 points and 6.5 rebounds as a freshman (Big East All-Freshman team), 19.8 and 7.4 as a sophomore, 19.2 and 6.6 as a junior. He led the Big East in scoring in 2021 and took conference co-Most Improved Player that year, with first-team All-Big East honors in both 2021 and 2022. Per-season steal rates are reported inconsistently across sources and are not included here. His identical twin, Justin Champagnie, is also in the league. Draft: undrafted in 2022. Signed a two-way contract with Philadelphia on June 24, 2022; waived February 14, 2023; claimed off waivers by San Antonio on a two-way two days later, with G League time in Delaware and Austin that season. Re-signed with the Spurs July 6, 2023.
| Season | Age | Team | GP | MPG | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | 3PM | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 21 | PHI/SAS | 17 | 18.8 | 9.7 | 3.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.9 | .454 | .824 | 0.6 |
| 2023-24 | 22 | SAS | 74 | 19.8 | 6.8 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.4 | .408 | .815 | 0.8 |
| 2024-25 | 23 | SAS | 82 | 23.6 | 9.9 | 3.9 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 2.2 | .415 | .904 | 0.9 |
| 2025-26 | 24 | SAS | 82 | 27.6 | 11.1 | 5.8 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 2.4 | .437 | .844 | 0.8 |
| Career | 255 | 23.5 | 9.4 | 4.1 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 2.0 | .424 | .852 | 0.8 |
The 2022-23 split is lopsided: two scoreless garbage-time appearances in Philadelphia at 3.5 minutes, then 15 games in San Antonio at 20.9 minutes producing 11.0 points, 4.0 rebounds, and 2.2 threes on .461 shooting. The Spurs saw a rotation player immediately. He made 195 threes in 2025-26, a Spurs single-season franchise record, and started 68 of his 82 games.
Fantasy history: Not verifiable. No season-end 9-category rank could be confirmed for any of his four seasons from Basketball Monster, Hashtag, or ESPN Player Rater archives, and inferring one from the box line would be an estimate dressed as a fact. What the line does support is a specific and unusual category profile: 2.4 threes, 0.8 steals, 0.5 blocks, and only 0.8 turnovers, with free-throw percentage a genuine asset (.852 career, .904 in 2024-25) on low attempt volume. Field-goal percentage is roughly neutral to slightly negative and assists are close to worthless. The points-league shape is materially worse than the category shape — 11.1 points with 1.5 assists is thin production for a per-game points format, and his two best fantasy traits, elite free-throw percentage on low volume and near-zero turnovers, are exactly the traits points leagues do not reward. He is a specialist, not a balanced pick.
Durability: 17, 74, 82, 82. The 17 is contract status, not health — he was a two-way player waived by Philadelphia in February and picked up mid-season. He missed eight games in 2023-24; the causes are not verified. Since then he has been among the most available players in the league: back-to-back 82-game seasons, and the NBA's own release at his June 2026 signing put him at 185 consecutive regular-season games, the second-longest active streak at that moment. There is no injury of record on his file. For a late-round pick, availability at this level is a real and underpriced source of value.
Trajectory: Three straight seasons of climbing minutes with production that scaled cleanly, which is the honest read — 19.8 to 23.6 to 27.6 minutes, and 6.8 to 9.9 to 11.1 points. The improvement that is not just more minutes is the shooting: .408 to .415 to .437 from the field, with the 2025-26 jump coming alongside 38.1 percent from three on 6.2 attempts a game, meaning he got more accurate while taking harder volume. The rebounding leap from 3.9 to 5.8 is the other real change and it is role-driven — he spent far more time at the four, which is also what makes the Tobias Harris competition the whole story for 2026-27. He enters the season at 25, so unlike most late-round wings there is no aging discount to apply; the three-year, $45 million contract prices him as a starter San Antonio intends to keep, and the Spurs have never needed him to create. The realistic 2026-27 band is the 2025-26 line held roughly flat or nudged up if he keeps the starting job and a step back toward the 2024-25 line if Harris takes it, with the low-turnover, high-availability floor intact either way.
Career sources: ESPN career stats · StatMuse season-by-season · Wikipedia · NBA.com: Champagnie re-signs with San Antonio
Open questions
- Does Champagnie or Harris start opening night?
- Can his strong playoff defense earn closing minutes over Vassell or Harper?