One position reigns supreme across the National Football League, and while it’s not valued the same way in our world, it is the highest scoring position, and that means you have to get it right. Our QB Fantasy Football rankings are here to help you make an important call that could potentially swing your fate this winter.
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QB Fantasy Football Rankings
1) Josh Allen | BUF
2) Lamar Jackson | BAL
3) Drake Maye | NE
In recent seasons, it’s been more viable to spend premium draft capital on a quarterback than during the 2010s. The rise of the mobile QB has resulted in the elite fantasy quarterbacks not only having higher ceilings but also being more predictable year over year. That’s what makes Maye’s value so strange. He’s going as the QB7.
Typically, when a young quarterback with the skill set of Maye has his breakout, we see him steamed up draft boards. Yet, Maye is not going anywhere near Josh Allen or even Lamar Jackson in drafts. From that perspective, he sure looks like a value.
The problem is that even at his QB7 price tag, the opportunity cost is still decently high. You are passing on a quality running back or wide receiver to select Maye in a season where the quarterback position is as deep as ever.
There are several quarterbacks with QB1 upside and even legitimate top-five upside going outside the top 12. Maye has proven top-five upside, but is he seven rounds better than Jordan Love or Malik Willis? That will be up to you to decide.
4) Jayden Daniels | WAS
5) Jalen Hurts | PHI
6) Joe Burrow | CIN
7) Jaxson Dart | NYG
8) Justin Herbert | LAC
9) Caleb Williams | CHI
10) Trevor Lawrence | JAX
11) Dak Prescott | DAL
12) Brock Purdy | SF
13) Patrick Mahomes II | KC
14) Bo Nix | DEN
15) Kyler Murray | MIN
16) Jared Goff | DET
17) Matthew Stafford | LAR
Stafford is one of the best quarterbacks in the league. No question about it. If NFL teams had to pick quarterbacks most likely to help them win a Super Bowl for one year, Stafford would undoubtedly be a top 10 pick. Fantasy football is different.
Modern NFL quarterbacks all have at least some modicum of mobility.
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Last season, five quarterbacks averaged at least 20.0 PPG (Trevor Lawrence was actually fifth at 19.9, but we’re counting him). Here is the percentage of fantasy points for each from rushing:
- Josh Allen 37.3%
- Drake Maye 17.9%
- Matthew Stafford -1.7%
- Patrick Mahomes 25.3%
- Trevor Lawrence 24.8%
One of these things is not like the other.
Of the top 15 qualifying fantasy quarterbacks last season, 12 of them generated at least 17% of their fantasy points via rushing production.
It’s not the 2000s anymore. We had the great quarterback boom of 2011 that elevated QB production across the league. That took us into one era. In the late 2020s, right around the time when Lamar Jackson became a starter, the NFL kicked off the mobile quarterback era. Now, almost every QB entering the league has minimum competency as a rusher. That makes it more and more difficult for traditional pocket passers to hang. To do so, pocket passers need to throw a lot of touchdowns.
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Stafford has played 18 professional seasons and has been considered one of the better QBs in the league for most of them. Yet, he’s only had four in which he posted 19+ fantasy points per game.
While Stafford has registered nine QB1 finishes, seven of them came in the 2010s and with averages that wouldn’t get him there now.
18) Malik Willis | MIA
After two years in Tennessee, Willis settled into a role as Jordan Love’s backup in Green Bay. The opportunities were very limited, with Love only missing three games. However, Willis made the most of his three opportunities to start.
In Willis’ two starts in 2024, he posted 13.0 and 25.4 fantasy points. In his lone 2025 start, he put up 31.5 points in Week 17 for any fantasy manager bold enough to start him. The sample size is very small, but Willis was an elite QB1 in two out of his three starts. And even the 13.0 week isn’t a total disaster.
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Willis enters the 2026 season as the unquestioned starter for the Dolphins. It’s fair to say he is not a guarantee to make it through the season. But if he plays like he did in Green Bay, he will. That guy could be quite appealing in fantasy.
We have no idea what the Dolphins’ offense will look like now that Mike McDaniel is gone, along with every key offensive weapon from the previous few seasons outside of De’Von Achane. His top three receivers are currently Jalen Tolbert, Malik Washington, and Tutu Atwell.
The theory behind drafting Willis is, of course, his rushing ability. Rushing quarterbacks continue to be a cheat code in fantasy, even if they aren’t a secret anymore.
In his three starts on the Packers, Willis averaged 58 rushing yards per game. Add in his three rushing touchdowns in those games, and Willis provided 11.8 fantasy points per game on the ground. That will naturally regress with more samples across a full season, but the fact remains Willis is a prolific runner. The overall weakness of the Dolphins’ offense will also inevitably lead to more scrambles in addition to the designed run plays.
Willis will have to do a lot himself to make this offense work. And the Dolphins are not in a position to try and “protect” him, similar to how the Ravens want to protect Lamar Jackson or the Eagles want to protect Jalen Hurts. Willis has a one-year audition to prove he is an NFL-caliber starting quarterback. He will do everything in his power to show that he is.
19) Jordan Love | GB
20) Tyler Shough | NO
21) Baker Mayfield | TB
22) Sam Darnold | SEA
23) C.J. Stroud | HOU
24) Bryce Young | CAR
25) Daniel Jones | IND
26) Jacoby Brissett | ARI
27) Cam Ward | TEN
28) Geno Smith | NYJ
29) Tua Tagovailoa | ATL
30) Michael Penix Jr. | ATL
31) Deshaun Watson | CLE
32) Kirk Cousins | LV
