2024 Fantasy Football Rankings: Tiered look at the quarterback draft landscape

We’re working our way through the Shuffle Up series for the new fantasy football draft season. The dollar values you’ll see below are unscientific in nature but reflect how I see the clusters of talent at the quarterback position. Use these tiers however you like.

We opened the series last week with the tight end tiers. Soon to come will be the running backs and wide receivers.

Have some disagreements? Good, that’s why we have a game. I welcome your reasoned disagreement over at X/Twitter: @scott_pianowski.

Quarterback Overview

In the NFL, the quarterback is the glamour position and the stress position. Everything is about finding a quarterback, keeping a quarterback, developing a quarterback. And if you don’t have one, you can’t sleep at night.

The feeling is much different in standard fantasy leagues, where quarterback is the least-stressful of the four field positions. The NFL has good quarterback depth at the moment, and it means you can do well at your draft at any jumping-off point. It also means I’m probably going to be patient with the position, eschewing the first tier and maybe even the top of the second, hoping to find someone in the second half of the Top 10 who can crash the Top 5. I’m also looking to add an upside pick later, someone who doesn’t qualify as an auto-start today but might be there after a few weeks of the season.

Don’t sweat if you miss the first quarterback bus. There’s another one coming in five minutes.

Tier 1: The Big Tickets

Allen is at the top of the list because someone has to be there, but I doubt I’ll be drafting him much, if at all. The Bills offense wasn’t as pass-happy after Joe Brady took over the offense in the second half of 2023, and the Buffalo receiving room is full of question marks. I’m also not going to pay the freight for the 15 rushing touchdowns Allen piled up last season; it’s the only time he’s made it to double-digits in that critical category.

Allen’s rushing yardage did take a modest dip last year, and I…

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Publish date : 2024-07-01 17:54:16

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