Tommy DeVito’s play has had a direct impact on Saquon Barkley’s fantasy production this season. (Photo by Kathryn Riley/Getty Images) (Kathryn Riley via Getty Images)
We’ve spent some time here this season evaluating player performances that surprised us, pleasantly or infuriatingly, with the hope of sorting out what can be trusted and what we need to let go of.
Given that quarterback is the backbone of an NFL team — and most fantasy teams — we’ve scrutinized this position more than others.
In the majority of leagues QB evaluation is pretty straightforward by now. You have your stud starter (Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, Dak Prescott, C.J. Stroud, etc.) and, until bye weeks or a devastating injury derails him, it’s easy to coast through the season. Or, you know you’re a QB streamer and use relevant data to scoop up the best of the waiver wire each week. No one needs me to tell them that whoever faces Washington is a strong QB option.
What we haven’t done though, is take a hard look at the impact those “bottom of the barrel” QBs have on the skill players languishing on our rosters. Just because you’re not starting these quarterbacks doesn’t mean they don’t affect your fantasy team. As we head toward the 2023 fantasy playoffs, we need to figure out whether bad QB play makes a team’s running backs, wide receivers and tight ends obsolete.
We’ll bin them according to whether there is some hope — or whether the whole situation is hopeless.
There is hope!
Cincinnati Bengals: Jake Browning, QB30 (two games) | Ja’Marr Chase, Joe Mixon
OK, losing to the Steelers isn’t a complete ringing endorsement, but Browning finished the day with a respectable QB rating of 96.2 (11th-highest in Week 12) and a 73.1% completion rate (third-highest in Week 12). His 227-1-1 line was mediocre, and he won’t be a running QB cheat code, but the real question is whether Ja’Marr Chase can survive this changing of the guard.
Chase was targeted six times, catching 4-81…
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Publish date : 2023-11-28 18:36:43
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