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: 13 games, 30.9 MPG; 11.8 points, 10.5 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.4 steals on .529 FG — a double-double average, with a 26-point/17-rebound game and a 20-rebound game inside the sample. He signed after 39 G League games for Raptors 905 (7.8 points, 7.0 rebounds in 17.2 MPG), so the NBA sample is both small and a large step up from his G League rate; treat it as a genuine signal that is nonetheless unlikely to repeat at full strength.
- Contract: two-way, signed February 28 2026, $678,882 for 2026-27. Two-way status caps him at 50 NBA games, which is the main structural limit on the payoff.
- 2026-27 healthy-roster base: 0 allocated minutes behind Davis, Sarr and Ayton.
- Conditional role: 20 active-game minutes when Washington loses a frontcourt starter.
| Conditional MPG | 3PM | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 0.0 | 7.9 | 7.2 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | .525 | .650 | 1.3 |
Correction 2026-07-18: conditional minutes raised from 12 to 20 and the projection rescaled. The prior line was built on a "small sample; rebounding depth" reading that omitted the actual 11.8/10.5/.529 production, and it understated his position in the queue — Washington's own injury branches for Davis and Sarr name him first among the reserve bigs. Wizards PR · Hoops Rumors
Fantasy dossier
- 9-cat: rebounds/FG%/steals streamer in deep leagues; FT% and the lack of threes and blocks limit broader appeal.
- Points: injury-path double-double streamer with a mid-20s workload — the 2025-26 sample shows he reaches that production when given the minutes.
- Dynasty: deep hold. The stash case is that he sits behind two bigs with major injury histories (Davis, Sarr) and one on an expiring contract (Ayton), so multiple independent paths open the same door.
- Floor/ceiling: inactive/DNP floor; top-180 rebound specialist if one rotation big is unavailable, better if two are, with the 50-game two-way cap bounding the totals.
Evidence trail
Wizards 2025-26 notes · Hoops Rumors — two-way signing · Maryland Athletics — signing release · HoopsHype 2026-27 cap table · Ayton acquisition
Career record
Pre-NBA: Maryland, four seasons (2021-25): 5.7/4.4 → 11.4/7.2 → 13.7/9.5 with 1.9 BLK → 13.3/9.0 as a senior on a Sweet 16 team; twice All-Big Ten honorable mention. Career: 134 GP, 11.1 PTS, 7.6 REB on .557 FG / .630 FT; one of two Terrapins ever (with Len Elmore) to reach 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds. Brother of WNBA All-Star Angel Reese. Draft: undrafted (2025). Route: 2025 Lakers Summer League → Toronto Exhibit 10 (October 2025) → Raptors 905 (17.2 MPG, 7.8 PTS, 7.0 REB across his stint, .611 FG in regular-season play) → Wizards two-way, February 28, 2026.
| Season | Age | Team | GP | MPG | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | 3PM | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 22 | WAS | 13 | 30.9 | 11.8 | 10.5 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | .529 | .636 | 2.5 |
The 13-game sample included a 26-point/17-rebound game and a 20-rebound game.
Durability: No injury history of note; the 13-game NBA total reflects a February 28 signing date, not availability.
Trajectory: The record is unusually legible for an undrafted two-way: four college seasons of climbing rebound rates, a modest G League bench role, and then an NBA month in which the rebounding translated at a double-double level the moment minutes appeared — with the same limits (no threes, .636 FT, fouls/turnovers) he showed at Maryland. In 2026-27 he holds zero healthy-roster minutes behind Davis, Sarr and Ayton but sits first in Washington's stated injury queue among reserve bigs. He becomes fantasy-relevant the day a frontcourt starter goes down: at 20-plus minutes he is an immediate rebounds/FG% stream, bounded by the 50-game two-way cap unless Washington converts him.
Career sources: Wikipedia — Julian Reese, StatMuse 2025-26 season averages, Maryland Athletics — two-way signing release, Sports-Reference college page
Open questions
- Does Reese beat Vukcevic and Okpara for emergency-center priority?
- Can he generate enough blocks to matter beyond rebounds?
- How much of the 11.8/10.5 line survives a healthier roster and a smaller role, given the gap between it and his G League rate?
- Does Washington convert him to the open standard roster spot to escape the 50-game two-way cap?