Information cutoff: 2026-07-18. The line below is conditional and is excluded from Washington's exact 240-minute base rotation.
Role, baseline, and conditional projection
- 2025-26: 21 games, 16.9 MPG.
- Health: a right shoulder-area upper-extremity deep-vein thrombosis was diagnosed December 23; Washington ruled him out for the rest of the season in January. No definitive public July clearance was found.
- 2026-27 healthy-roster base: 0 allocated minutes pending medical and rotational clarity.
- Conditional role: 12 active-game minutes after clearance and a wing opening.
| Conditional MPG | 3PM | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 0.6 | 6.3 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | .455 | .750 | 0.8 |
Fantasy dossier
- 9-cat: scoring/FG% streamer when active; low assists and modest defensive volume make him less versatile than the athletic profile suggests.
- Points: the format most likely to reward his direct scoring at 20-plus minutes.
- Dynasty: speculative upside hold because he is young, but medical uncertainty and Washington's wing hierarchy create an unusually wide value range.
- Floor/ceiling: no-role/medical floor; top-140 scoring bursts if cleared into 24-plus minutes.
Evidence trail
Wizards 2025-26 notes · NBA January injury report PDF · official Wizards roster
Career record
Pre-NBA: Villanova, one season (2022-23): 26 GP after thumb surgery delayed his debut, 27.4 MPG, 12.5 PTS, 5.3 REB, 1.4 STL on .478/.343/.703 — Big East Freshman of the Year, McDonald's All-American (2022), FIBA U18 Americas MVP (2022). Draft: 2023, Round 1, Pick 20, Houston Rockets — a steep slide from projected top-five range.
| Season | Age | Team | GP | MPG | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | 3PM | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | 19 | HOU | 47 | 18.7 | 12.3 | 3.8 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.7 | .454 | .679 | 1.0 |
| 2024-25 | 20 | HOU | 51 | 16.2 | 9.4 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.3 | .444 | .750 | 0.9 |
| 2025-26 | 21 | WAS | 21 | 16.9 | 9.2 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.8 | .456 | .742 | 0.9 |
| Career | — | — | 119 | 17.3 | 10.5 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.3 | .450 | .712 | 0.9 |
Durability: 47 and 51 games in Houston reflected rotation politics and G League assignments (Rio Grande Valley in both years) more than health. The serious entry is 2025-26: deep-vein thrombosis in the right shoulder diagnosed December 23, ruled out for the season January 15, 2026 — a medical situation, not an orthopedic one, with no public clearance found as of the July 18 cutoff. Trajectory: The record shows one of the best per-minute scorers of his draft class — 12.3 points in 18.7 minutes as a 19-year-old — who has never been given, or fully earned, a stable role: three seasons, three sub-20-minute averages, and assist and three-point numbers that went backward in Washington. In 2026-27 he competes for wing minutes in a crowded Wizards room, strictly conditional on blood-clot clearance. He becomes fantasy-relevant if cleared into 24-plus minutes, where the scoring and FG% scale immediately, most cleanly in points leagues; without clearance he is a zero, which is why the dossier holds him outside the base rotation. Career sources: ESPN career stats · Wikipedia · Basketball-Reference
Open questions
- Has Whitmore received full medical clearance for contact and game action?
- Is there a rotation path without a trade involving Middleton or another wing?