I've achieved building a lineup with a 60/60 TotY core. It feels every bit as end-game as All-Star Athletes was last year, and I expect to leverage it throughout the remainder of MUT 26. I've got four of the six TotY Collection LTD's (Bush, Haynesworth, Manning, and Owens) as well as Quinnen Williams at DT for the BND. Tacking on the Kyle Pitts LTD, and Ultimate Legends LTD's Ken Norton, Willie Roaf, and Jack Youngblood, I reach 42/60 using only nine spots in my lineup, and at least five of those would also count toward any potential theme team. (Obviously the TotY Collection LTD's Harold Carmichael and Kyle Pitts would get me up to 50/60, but the value-added benefit doesn't justify halving my remaining eight million in coins.)
The 60/60 TotY boosts elevate most TotY champions to 99 OVR without any other modifiers, so from here I can focus on the underlying theme team and plug in gaps with TotY-chem players as needed. I initially hoped to run a Browns lineup, which gave me a 98 SPD Baker Mayfield and 99 SPD Myles Garrett and Demario Davis. Almost immediately I realized that the Browns have few good theme team players with good abilities at current-level AP costs. I'll give it a chance.
Many of the TotY players hit key maximums even before theme team boosts. Therefore, is the play here a TotY Goon Squad, or are there some viable theme teams that elevate key TotY players?