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0:00 Intro
1:30 1: Josh Allen
4:40 2: Lamar Jackson
14:30 3: Joe Burrow
18:50 4: Jayden Daniels
20:53 5: Jalen Hurts
23:50 6: Baker Mayfield
28:34 7: Patrick Mahomes
35:55 8: Bo Nix
38:52 9: Kyler Murray
40:57 10: Brock Purdy
43:33 11: Jared Goff
50:10 12: Justin Herbert
54:32 13: C.J. Stroud
1:01:15 14: Caleb Williams
1:07:07 15: Dak Prescott
1:11:45 Honorable Mention: Justin Fields
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All right, welcome to Touchdown Talks. I’m Spencer Taylor. This is going to be my top 15 list for quarterbacks for fantasy in 2025. Uh we are just over a week away from the kickoff for the 2025 season. So, we’re coming right up to it. you know th these videos from here on out. All of these, including the wide receiver video and running back video, which are already out, by the way, you can go to to my channel page and you can find them there. Uh, you know, also, while you’re at it, don’t forget to hit subscribe, leave a like on this video, and don’t forget to hit the notification bell when you subscribe so that way you don’t miss any of my future videos. That’ll be on the rest of the positions for fantasy. Uh, but as I said, this video will be my top 15 fantasy quarterbacks list for you. As if you’re just preparing for a lastm minute draft before the season starts like I am. I’m preparing for many drafts as a matter of fact. Uh, just finished my first fantasy draft uh bit ago and so got quite a few more lined up in some different leagues. But so yeah, this these videos are just there to give you sort of my opinion and some of my thoughts on certain players and where they should be drafted. So uh without further ado, let’s get into my list. Uh so at number one for quarterbacks, at number one overall, and I do want to say number one, number two, pretty interchangeable in my opinion. I’m not too set on number one or two uh being either quarterback that I’m going to mention, but number one on my list is going to be Josh Allen. Uh so Josh Allen is on average being drafted first for quarterbacks this year. Uh his his ADP currently overall is 21. Uh so that’s going to be a late second round pick. Uh that’s about the seventh pick in the second round. Um and then you know some of the reasons for that is he is the reigning MVP and also for Josh Allen the the main thing that is going for him here as far as one versus two and the reason he’s number one for me on this list and I’m sure for quite possibly many others drafting. The reason for that for me is that Josh Allen in each of the past five seasons, he has finished either number one or number two for quarterbacks in fantasy. All five years he’s been one or two. So that’s that’s pretty consistent. Over half a decade, he has been at least a top two quarterback in fantasy for an ent for the totality of a season. Um, so that’s pretty good to to understate it. That is really good. Um, yeah, he he’s cut down on turnovers. He had in 2024 he did throw less, but as I said, cut down turn on turnovers and again the the the Bills one of the best teams in the league have been ever since they got Josh Allen. And you know, they they’ve a lot of it in in recent years, a lot of their success has been on the offense and or certainly on offense, their success on offense has been very much on the back of Josh Allen. It’s quite often been the discussion year in and year out is that the team needs to be doing more to get him more running back help or more weapons, whatever, better O line, uh, you know, again, more help from the defense, whatever it is. Josh Allen, you know, we we know how good he is and and what he does both through the air and on the ground for for the Bills. just been an excellent quarterback really since like you know he he had like a rough f his his rookie year his first year or two in the league was a little rough. Um but I believe it was his second season if I remember right that he he really kind of just rided the ship. it was either second or third season where things just kind of clicked and ever since then Josh Allen has just been um just been an amazing quarterback and especially for fantasy obviously if he’s been top two for five straight seasons now. So um so yeah, Josh Allen starts off this list for me and number one again on average going 21 so late second round. Uh, number two on my list and number two for quarterbacks in 2025 average draft position is no surprise Lamar Jackson. As I mentioned, between Lamar or Josh Allen, I’m not super uh set in my opinion of Josh being over Lamar. Uh, you know, certainly in in any given draft, I wouldn’t be surprised if either one of these two goes number one for quarterbacks. Um, but I’m willing to bet you in most leagues that that you draft in, if one of these quarterbacks goes, the other one is going to be like the very next pick. Uh, if not like a couple picks later. Um, and again, it’s just going to be whatever one gets picked first, the second one is going to go right away, no matter no matter which one it is that’s left to be second. Um, and again, on average, it is Josh Allen going just slightly higher. Again, Josh Allen’s average ADP is 21. So again, that’s about the seventh pick in the second round if you’re in a 12 team league. And then for Lamar Jackson, his ADP overall is 24. So, that’s just the very end of the second round for a 12 team league. Um, but really for both of these two, uh, and and I did see it in the draft that I’ve been in and some of the others, mock drafts I’ve been in, drafts I’ve seen, uh, generally these two are going late second round, if not just somewhere in the second round. Like chances are what you need to what you need need to expect with with this draft is, you know, draft round one. Take whatever it is your wide receiver, your uh your wide receiver, your running back, whatever whatever your top of those is that’s available to you at the pick you get assigned to, take that. And then second round, if you want Josh Allen or or Lamar Jackson, you’re probably going to have to take them second round. And as a matter of fact, in some leagues, you may see them even go late first round, as a matter of fact. So, you know, if you want Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson, you’re going to have to pay a high price, but they very well may be worth it. Again, Josh Allen has been a top two quarterback for the last five seasons. And again, a couple of those he was number one, including 2024. Uh, part of the reason that I have and obviously on average the average is just slightly in favor of Josh Allen is because of that consistency in fantasy rankings. For Lamar Jackson, he has been a great fantasy running back. Don’t get me wrong, especially because of his running ability, second to none. Uh, and he’s very much in in recent years improved his passing ability as well. All the criticism from early years of him not being a good passer, him just being a glorified running back, those are those are invalid now. Um I don’t I don’t even hear anybody making those kind of arguments anymore. If they are, they’re getting laughed off as a hater. Um and certainly for fantasy, again, one of the best. always been a a top running back pretty much his whole career or sorry a top fantasy quarterback pretty much his entire career. However, because while Josh has been in the top two each of the last five seasons on a seasonto season basis that makes Josh the more reliable quarterback for fantasy value. Uh however, on a week-to-eek basis, uh just in 2024, Lamar was much better. Uh he only had three games below 20 points, whereas Josh had six games that were below 20 points. And Josh even had two games in 2024 that were in single digits. So, kind of depends what you want to go off of. Do you want to go off of the last five years or do you want to go off of last year? If you want to go off of last year, take Lamar Jackson. He was number one and he actually beat he actually beat Josh Allen by a sizable margin. Uh Lamar Jackson got 430 points in fantasy last season and Josh Allen at number two for fantasy quarterbacks got 379. So that’s that’s basically 50 points difference between the two of them. Uh, so yeah, really week to week for 2024, Lamar Jackson was the much better was quite a bit better of a quarterback. Again, basically always was above 20 points. Um, it was basically a guaranteed 20. Uh, I mean, either of these two quarterbacks, if you had them on your team, it was great. any week that you went up against them in other leagues, it was a dreadful week going up against either of these two, but especially Lamar Jackson in 2024 because he was all basically every week outside of a couple, he was 20 points or higher. Um, and with Lamar again, he’s just more of a running quarterback. And so that part is just really reliable for his game for translating into fantasy. Whereas Josh Allen, he’s a runner, but Josh Allen is a little bit more of a balanced passer torunner. Um, and again, in 2024 at least, Josh Allen, they didn’t ask him to pass as much. Um, so yeah, really between these two, as I’ as I keep saying, uh, do want to move on here, but between those two, go which go with whichever one you prefer. what you want to go off of. Either one will be a great pick for you. It’s just a matter of again, either of these two quarterbacks, you’re going to have to pay a pretty a pretty good price as far as you’re going to have to draft them pretty early for quarterback. Uh but whichever one is available to you if you’re ready to do it late second round or even just in the second round, if you want, depending on where you’re at, you know, you might be placed early in the second round. If that’s the case, if you want one of these two quarterbacks, you may have to overpay for them and take them early in the second round. That’s just kind of how it’s going to be. Um, you know, cuz especially if you’re in a snake draft and let’s say you drafted first overall, uh, you know, you’re not going to come back around till the end of the second round, you might even be lucky if these two fall to you. So, at that point, you’re going to have to take one of these quarterbacks if you want them or they’re going to be gone. there’s pretty much no chance, especially this time of the year, uh, more fans are going to be that are drafting this time of year, are going to be more impatient to draft quarterbacks in general. Um, ADP every year for quarterbacks kind of gets goes up and up and up and inflates the closer you get to the season. So, now that we’re up up against it, a lot of these quarterbacks, their draft stock, especially these top ones, is going to rise. Um, and again with Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, one of them gets picked, it’s almost guaranteed that the other one is going to go in the next couple picks. Um, but even outside of them, some of these next, you know, like the top five quarterbacks, they will also likely go off the board pretty quick once these other two are gone. Um, so you just kind of got to watch for when quarterback goes. Again, if you want one of these two, you’re going to have to pay a high price and you’re going to have to, you know, maybe take your top running back, wide receiver in the first round and then take uh one of these two quarterbacks cuz otherwise they’re going to be gone and you’re going to maybe have a chance to get one of the top five quarterbacks. But even then, in in some leagues, the drafting of quarterbacks is going to snowball. And you might, you know, you might see Lamar and and Josh Allen be available into the mid to late second round and think you’re good. And then somebody drafts these two at the end of the second round. And then early third round, there’s a run on three more quarterbacks. And there you go. you’re already down to, you know, the sixth overall quarterback and it’s only, you know, the end of round three when you’re back up to draft. So, uh, you know, that can happen with quarterback. Um, so again, just depending on what you want to go with. If you want a surefire quarterback for fantasy, draft one of these two highly or you’re going to have to go for, you know, you may may be able to get one of these other top fiveish that are pretty surefire. Um, after that, at that point, you’re going to be going for more of the mid-level starting fantasy quarterbacks that can be good and can be uh awesome for fantasy, but might be less consistent or might just have a lower selling for fantasy points. Um, so yeah, just it’s it’s what you want to go off of. Now, if you do go for those more mid-level starting fantasy quarterbacks, um, a lot of draft experts for fantasy will will advise that just because it means you are able to use those early picks on running back, wide receiver, which are positions that ha have the most fantasy value and they’re positions that, you know, if you get top top talent and you’re lucky enough to have them stay healthy, you know, at least even half of them stay healthy throughout the year. Uh those positions are going to be the ones that win you the the uh your your league, but also with quarterback, these two quarterbacks I mentioned so far in in Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, that these two can win you your league as well. I’ve I’ve seen many leagues in recent year where years where the champion usually had one of the top two quarterbacks here. So, without further ado, let’s move into my third pick. Now that I’ve been rambling on forever, uh, with the third pick in the 2025 fantasy draft, uh, ranking for myself for quarterbacks, I have Joe Burrow. Now, this is a bit above the average for for Joe Burrow this year. Uh, on average, he’s going fifth for quarterbacks, and his ADP is at pick 40. Um, again, I I’ve seen him even going a little higher than this. Um, the pick is okay. Um, but again, him him getting listed at fifth overall for quarterbacks. I’ve I’ve been seeing that be true, but I’ve also at times seen whether he’s drafted like if he’s drafted fifth, I’ve seen him go right around pick 40. But if he’s drafted earlier, like third or fourth quarterback drafted, he’s he’s been drafted a bit higher. And I have seen that this year. Um, and that’s thing for me. I do think he’s better than than fifth. So that’s why I have him at third here because in 2024, he finished with 372.8 fantasy points. Uh, this year ESPN has him projected down at 329.6, six, which is a regression of 50 points. And honestly, I don’t really see it. Um, I I think that the the Bengals offense seems primed and ready to, you know, put up a ton more points yet again. And as I’ve mentioned in in a couple of the previous videos this week, I don’t I like many don’t trust that the Mingles defense is going to be anything special. Sure, it might not be as bad as it was in 2024. Certainly, Bengals fans hope so. But whether or not it is, or even if it’s slightly improved to the, you know, 20th best defense or an average defense, uh, you know, the Bengals, I do expect them to have a chance to win a good amount of games. Um, if their defense is absolute garbage, you know, I’d expect them to be more of a middle of the pack team overall. But regardless, I expect the Bengals to be in some shootouts. And so for Joe Burrow, he’s got a high potential to score a ton of points. Now, the one downside with Joe Burrow is health concerns. Uh he’s most seasons in his career, he has not been able to finish a a full season without missing at least a few games due to injury. Uh thankfully for Bengals fans and for for you if you draft him currently he’s not coming into the season with with any lingling lingering issues uh like he has in some years. Um he was the comeback player of the year in 2024 due to a very injury plagued 2023. Um but so yeah that that’s the thing with with Joe Burrow and part of why on average he’s probably a little lower than what I have him ranked as. Um, again, I I just I’m betting on him staying healthy at least for enough of the season that he can, you know, even if maybe you’re missing him for a couple games due to a to a light injury or something, I think he’s got enough value week to week, uh, and he’ll be consistent enough when he is playing and putting up enough points that it’ll be worth it drafting him here at number three overall for quarterbacks. Um, but again, I could be wrong. if he is injured for four weeks, six weeks, um you know, then you’re talking about, okay, yeah, he’s might be top more top five, might not even be top five at all. So, uh that’s kind of the riskreward here with with Joe Bro is if he’s able to the longer he’s able to stay healthy, the potential for points that he could put up is insane. uh especially with the Bengals resigning and keeping uh T. Higgins and Jamar Chase. So, uh you know, and they’ve got an improved running game from certain years. Um so, yeah, Joe Bau number three on my list, number five overall for quarterbacks and going about 40th on average in the draft. But again, if a run on quarterbacks happens, he’ll go higher. Uh, at number four on my list, I have Jaden Daniels with the Washington Commanders. Uh, he’s going into his sophomore season. He’s coming off really a historic level great rookie season. Had the rookie season that I would have liked uh Caleb Williams to have last year, but that’s beside the point. Uh, Jaden Daniels for Fantasy because of because of last season uh once again projected to have a good year. He finished with 355.8 fantasy points in 2024, projected to improve on that by about 13 this year, at least according to ESPN’s projections. Uh, and I do expect him to play around the same level as last year. Um, of course, I I’ve often brought up the sophomore slump that gets talked about. You’ll hear it on on broadcasts throughout the years. Um, and we’ve seen it with a lot of lot of players, including quarterbacks. seen it with with CJ Stroud. Uh and and again, when you have a historic level rookie season, it’s not hard to believe that maybe you have a sophomore slump compared to that. Um, but that’s the thing. Even if even if Jaden Daniels does have a sophomore slump compared to last year and his numbers don’t improve, his numbers being 355 uh overall for the season. If he maybe goes down on that to 320, he’s still going to be a top five uh certainly top 10 fantasy quarterback. So, take him take him early. Again, he’s going to be in this top five range where again, once Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson go, you might have a few picks that go before any other quarterbacks, but chances are you’re going to have more. And Jaden Daniels is going to be one that’s going to go off the board pretty quick, as well as Joe Burrow. And the next quarterback on my list, uh, who for me at pick number five or at number five for me, number four on average for ADP in quarterbacks is Jaylen Herz. Uh, his average draft position is 33. Uh, you know, so early third round. um well early to early to mid third round, but uh kind of just kind of depending on on the size of your league, but more of a early third round pick there. Um but again, it’s just it really depends on when the quarterback drafting snowball effect happens if it does in your league. Um, but for for Jaylen Herz though, certainly a top five fantasy quarterback and he he’s a running quarterback, so that’s that’s a huge part of it. He’s on a really great team, Super Bowl champs or reigning Super Bowl champs, I should say. And they, you know, in 14 games in 2024, he averaged uh 22.2 points in those games. Uh, so that was that was really great. Uh, they like often one of the knocks with Jaylen Herz is they didn’t ask him to pass a ton. He was 20th uh 20th or lower in pass attempts for quarterbacks last season as well as completions, yards, and touchdowns passing. But he’s very dominant on the ground. He’s a very dominant running quarterback. again, still good passing in his own right, but they don’t ask him to do that part very much. But not only with just the normal rushing, the other thing with Jaylen Herz in fantasy and with the Eagles, of course, uh that is still going to be a thing in 2025 is the tush push. The Eagles proved last season they could still do it with plenty of efficiency. Uh going into 2024, I had been worried that losing Jason Kelsey was going to make it harder for them to do it efficiently. They proved that to be wrong. Uh and and yeah, Jaylen Herz had a great year in fantasy last year and the tush pushes really do help his fantasy value. Uh I’m sure if the tush push got banned in the future or they weren’t using it, Jaylen would still be getting quite a bit of fantasy points and some of those tush pushes would convert into passing touchdowns or just rushing touchdowns for him. But um he he would without the tush push quite likely would lose a little bit of fantasy value. A lot of that going to whoever his running back is. Um you know so for last year it could have been Saquon Barkley could have gotten even more points. But either way Jaylen Herz Tushbush is still around. He’s a he’s a really good rushing quarterback. Better passing quarterback than people give him credit for. And he’s on the Eagles. one of the best built teams in the league currently. So, uh, he’s another quarterback. You’ll have to draft him pretty high if you want him. At number six on my list, this is going to be a bit of an outlier compared to the average. At number six for me, I have Baker Mayfield with the Buccaneers. Uh, and I got to say Baker in the last year or so has become one of my favorite quarterbacks to watch. Uh, you know, I mean, I feel for Browns fans because uh I I know it would be rough to in the years since they let go of Baker Mayfield, the Browns have had eight starting quarterbacks and obviously it’s it’s a not not good scenes uh there or really since they let go of Baker. And obviously when they had Baker, he wasn’t the same Baker that he is now. That’s part of why I love watching watching Bakers. He’s gone from, you know, coming into the league a bit raw, you know, a bit immature. Uh, you know, had some things he needed to work on. Things didn’t go well. You know, he looked like he was kind of a quarterback heading towards being a career backup, you know, or even flaming out of the league. Uh, you know, was came pretty close to it. And then, you know, he was with the the Rams there for that short stint. uh came in in that game where he he led the Rams on a big drive and that kind of felt like oh this this is different and then what do you know he he goes to the Buccaneers and he’s he’s been really great since and last year was his was the best year of his of his career. Uh 2023 was kind of the renaissance for Baker Mayfield as a whole uh just in football in his football career in the NFL. Uh but 2024 was his breakout year in fantasy. He finished with 365.8 points uh for fantasy, which is really good for quarterbacks. Uh that that put him into the top into the top five. Uh and that’s the thing, currently his projection for 2025 is 310, which is actually a regression of 55 points. And I just I I don’t know. I I know there’s concerns about some of the weapons and things on the Buccaneers offense being uh bit older, including players like Mike Evans. Uh obviously, there’s some, you know, concerns with Chris Chris Godwin as as well, who’s missed some time recently. So, you know, there’s some aging talent there, but the Buccaneers have also added some young talent this off season. So, I don’t expect Baker Mayfield to regress very much at all this season. So, that’s why for me, I’ve got him at number six. Now, the thing that’s that’s nice for me if I were to draft Baker and and if you want to go for him, I would argue that Baker Mayfield is a great value quarterback if you want to uh if you know, if you want to save those early round picks for your running backs, your wide receivers, heck, maybe an early tight end, uh which I’ll get to those to to tight ends tomorrow. But if you want to save those early round quarterbacks for for more of your passcatching and running uh fantasy players, uh Baker Mayfield could be a great, you know, early mid-round uh pick. Again, depending on the league, you might have to draft him earlier or later, but on average, he’s going eighth for quarterback and 76th overall. So, uh and and just a few days ago, his average draft position was at like 110. It’s obviously risen quite a bit. As I said, the the ADP in the last few days for just quarterbacks in general has has gone up quite a bit for all of them, at least the top quarterbacks. But yeah, for Baker Mayfield, I think he’s worth even higher. But because of his average for me, I’m willing to, you know, hey, if I if I’m confident that, you know, ex player, X, Y, and Z player or manager in my league is not going to go for Baker. I can let them take, you know, I can let them take some of these other quarterbacks. I can build up my my wide receiving core, my running back core. where I can, you know, I can get an early tight end, uh, and then still get Baker Mayfield, you know, in rounds five, six, maybe even seven in some of your smaller leagues. Um, and that’s a really great value in my opinion. Uh, because I again, I I do not expect him to regress. Uh, and even if he does in fantasy points, I don’t expect it to be much. Even if ESPN’s regression projection of going down to 310, even if that’s correct, that’s still going to be a top 10 fantasy quarterback. So, at number seven on my list, I have Patrick Mahomes. And I actually have him a little lower than his average draft position. Uh, if I had him and Baker Mayfield flipped, Patrick would be I would be right along with the average. Patrick is going sixth overall for quarterbacks as his average draft position is currently 49. And that’s part of why I have Baker over Patrick Mahomes. Of course, Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback in the league, but for fantasy, there’s a reason he’s not top one or two. Uh for fantasy wise, he’s barely even been a top six quarterback um in recent years. uh after after five straight seasons where he was a top six every year, uh he’s been 13th and 11th in the last two seasons. So for Patrick Mahomes, even though he’s the most accomplished quarterback currently in the league, uh really great quarterback as far as, you know, doing what he needs to when his team needs him to to make big plays and to to get a win. uh fantasy-wise, he’s just not a top producer as consistently as a Lamar, as a Josh Allen. But so for part of why on average I’ve got or part of why I’ve got Baker Mayfield higher than than Patrick Mahomes and even the next quarterback on this list is because even though those two quarterbacks are higher than Baker Mayfield on average, I think, as I mentioned, I think Baker Mayfield is a great value pick for where he’s going. And I think even in results-wise, he very well may end up being a better fantasy quarterback than these two quarterbacks. Um, Patrick Mahomes and the next quarterback I’m about to mention. Um, but for for Mahomes, part of the thing is is for one, he’s again, he’s the most accomplished quarterback currently in the league and probably and certainly the most popular. And part of that is not even necessarily due to football, of course. It’s just cuz the the Chiefs have won so many Super Bowls. They are the current dynasty. Uh you know, they just got dethroned from their attempt to three Pete, which has never happened. Um you know, even they weren’t able to do it, but they they got close. Uh, and for Patrick Mahomes, part of the thing in these last two seasons is the Chiefs offense as a whole has become more dink and dunk. And Patrick Mahomes himself has said, especially this off season, that he wants that to change. And, you know, obviously a lot of the receivers for the Chiefs and things like that have talked about wanting that to change. uh you know so some of Patrick Mahomes still going high is not only going to be because his popularity and accomplishments but some people are going to be betting on the upside and betting on the idea that hey maybe the Chiefs offense is going to get back to a little bit more of the light show that it was in some of Patrick’s earlier years and if that’s true yeah he very well maybe he could even get to be a top six quarterback in fantasy man. Um, but you know, I I just don’t know. I mean, for the Chiefs, you’ve got Rashi Rice, who it was announced today officially that he is going to be suspended for six games. So, you’re going to be missing Rasheed Rice for six games. Uh, you know, you’ve got Travis Kelce who’s an aging tight end who probably on his last season had basically the worst uh season of his career last year. um you know whether that improves or slightly regresses like Kelsey’s not the same player that he used to be uh you still certainly a good tight end but not what he was and so for for the Chiefs and for Patrick Mahomes fantasy value you know and that’s the other thing too Mahomes he does run but he’s he’s not known for the fact that he’s a running quarterback he’s more of a you know again, he does what he needs to, whether it’s whether it’s running or passing, Momes does a lot of crazy stuff in the moments that he’s needed to do it. Um, but in recent years, because they haven’t had the deep threat that they used to have, like when they had a young Tyreek Hill and that type of stuff, he’s gone to being a little bit more of a dink or dunk passer. Not necessarily because he can’t make the long throw. It’s just been because that’s what the Chiefs have had around Patrick Mahomes and what their offense has been made up of and Mahomes and Andy Reid have done a good job of managing and playing to the skills that they have. Um, and so yeah, for fantasy though it hasn’t necessarily translated to good points for Momes. And that’s why for me he’s a little bit lower than the average again because of the popularity and and also that’s thing I hate to say it. Don’t get mad at me for bringing this up but Mahomes and Travis Kelce when I talk about him tomorrow. Really any Chiefs player you may have to be ready especially if you have a Swifty uh Taylor Swift fan in your fantasy league. Of course, if you’re in a randomly managed one, you’re not going to know, but not necessarily unless they’ve got like Taylor Swift in their team name. But, um, if you’ve got a Swift fan that is in in your fantasy league that’s a manager there, chances are they they they may likely draft some Chiefs players, especially Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes. They may be likely to draft them quite a bit higher than the average. So, um, I think that’s part of why Patrick Mahomes average is so high. Um, and also just why his fantasy draft position is a little high for me, you know? I mean, if if I could get Patrick Mahomes at about pick uh I mean, even even at his average draft position of 49, if I could actually get him there, I might take him. Um, but that’s the thing in my experience, even though that’s his average, a lot of times he’s going higher than that. So, um I just and again even even if I’m at like pick 49, you know, for me, I’m going to be hesitant to take him because there’s going to be other players in other positions that are going to be of great value for those and I’m going to rather just, you know, take a Baker Mayfield later. So, uh yeah, for me, I probably won’t be getting Patrick Mahomes much this season. Um which is kind of a shame. I’ve I’ve had Patrick Mahomes on at least one fantasy team pretty much all of the last I don’t know eight seasons at least probably pretty much his whole career I’ve had at least one team with Patrick Mahomes on it. But this year I don’t know that that’s going to end up happening even though I’m going to probably end up having five six teams this year. Um, I I just don’t know that I’m going to end up with Patrick Mahomes cuz I just I don’t My value on him is a little lower than the average. So, I’m likely not going to end up having him. Moving on to number eight on my list, I have Bo Knicks with the Denver Broncos. Um, so once again, I’m a little lower than the average for Bon Knicks here. And again, for both Patrick Mahomes and Bonix, it’s really just the fact that I’ve got uh my value on Baker Mayfield so much higher than the average. Uh Baker Mayfield jumps two spots and I’ve got these two because of that one position lower. Um but Bon Knicks on average seventh for quarterbacks. He’s going at about pick 71. Um you know, so depending on the size of your league, uh that might be a late sixth rounder, early seventh rounder. Um, but again with quarterbacks, you never know. They could go around their average or they could go super high or again if you are in some of those fantasy leagues that have maybe a little bit more disciplined, patient fantasy fantasy managers that that do understand the value of um of wide receivers and running backs. some of those leagues, you know, and also just fantasy managers that maybe are overthinking things in a way. Um because that can happen at some point. Um in in some of those leagues, you’ll get Bo Knicks and and some of these guys much lower. But as I said, that’s why all these quarterbacks, their average draft position is going up, including Bo Knicks and everybody I’ve mentioned before, uh all their draft positions have been going up up over the last few days. Uh just because as we get as you get closer to the season, more and more fans are are going to be drafting quarterbacks high just because the hype’s the hype for them just grows just because quarterback’s the most celebrated position in football. So, um but yeah, really quick for Bon Knicks. Uh I think he’s a good pick here. Uh, again, I’ve got him slightly lower on my list than the average list would, but you know, he he had a great he had a pretty good rookie season. Wasn’t the best necessarily, but he finished with 317.2 fantasy points, which is really good uh for for a rookie quarterback. So, and that’s thing, he’s not even necessarily the biggest running quarterback either. Um, you know, the Broncos, I expect the Broncos to be improved this season. Uh, you know, if not at least very competitive. Whether they’re improved or not, I do expect them to be competitive under Shawn Payeyton yet again. Um, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the Broncos make it to the playoffs as well. Uh, I mean, there that division is is scary. I’m not going to say that I think they’re going to win it. Um, but I I could very much see the Broncos at least being a competitive team. And with that, you know, and with the coach and Shawn Payeyton that they have, um, I could see Bon Knicks having a good sophomore season. Uh, so then at number nine on my list, I have Kyler Murray. And now Kyler Murray on average is going 10th for quarterbacks and 93rd overall. Um, and that’s jumped up a bit in a c in the most recent uh couple days. Uh, Kyler finished with 297 in 2024. 306 points is his projected for 2025. Um, he’s entering his seventh season. In 2024, he appeared in every regular season game for the first time since 2022. Uh, and he delivered both as a passer and as a runner. uh he was top 15 in in both uh for for attempts and for carries for those two categories and he finished 12th overall for quarterbacks in points per game in 2024. Uh, you know, it some years the concern for Kyler Murray has been about either injuries or, you know, kind of the concerns of off the- field focus, that kind of stuff uh that the Cardinals themselves have had. But I do expect Kyler Murray to once again have have a good year this year. Um, you know, he might not necessarily be a top five, but he he’s certainly a top 10 fantasy quarterback. And because he’s such a good running quarterback, he can be a a pretty reliable one, at least throughout the course of the season. He’s not going to be as consistent as like a Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen. He may have some low weeks here and there. Uh but he he’s also got a good supporting cast in Trey Trey McBride at tight end. He’s got Marvin Harrison Jr. who although Marvin Harrison Jr. did have a disappointing wide receiver season last year as a rookie. Do expect him to improve as well. So, Kyler Murray’s got a good uh supporting cast. He’s a good running quarterback. So, that does make for a pretty good uh at least starting quarterback in fantasy. Kind of a lowend though for 2025. At number 10 on my list, uh number nine on average is Brock Party with the San Francisco 49ers. Uh on average at 89, again, that’s that’s going to be like your your eighth round um quarterback, but some of these leagues, he may be gone by then. Um, I mean, of course, at that point, if he’s gone, by then, most likely everybody in mo most teams in in your league are going to have a quarterback already, including yourself. Maybe you may maybe you’ve already picked up somebody at this point, but if you haven’t, Brock Pury, certainly at this average draft position, not bad. Um, he did finish with 266.8 in 2024. He’s projected to get a little over 300 this year. Um, you know, part of the concern for me with Brock Party is just the issues that are going on with the 49ers, uh, wide receiver room. Uh, they’ve, you know, across the board, a lot of injuries, a lot of, you know, off the- field issue type stuff going on, uh, going into the season. So, I’m a little bit concerned about that. You know, you do still have George KD uh, but George KD is is getting up there in age for a tight end. So, you know, you do also have other stars on the team like Trent Williams that are important, but yeah, Brock Party fringe quarterback one, he he’s definitely had some weeks here in the last couple years where he’s put out really good numbers uh for a fantasy quarterback, but he’s a little bit more inconsistent being that he’s not this this insane running quarterback. He can run as most quarterbacks can nowadays, but he’s not a running quarterback, per se. Um, he’s he’s an okay passer. Um, and and again, when when the Niners do have a good supporting staff or supporting cast around him, he’s amazing. And also, the other thing going that is going for the 49ers is they have a easy schedule on paper. So that is one thing that could go for for Brock Pury is that he’s got a a good supporting cast. They are getting Christian McCaffrey back as well this year who was basically gone all year. So that could be a good help to Brock Pur’s success as well. Um and that weaker schedule. Uh but again I he’s he’s a fringe quarterback one. At number 11 on my list, on average, he’s going 13th, which I think is really undervalued. This is another quarterback that I would say is really good value, although he’s still only a fringe uh starting quarterback for fantasy. Um, this is Jared Goff with the Lions. Uh, in 2024, he finished with 324 fantasy points. ESPN has this projection dropping all the way to 260.6. Uh now the only explanation I can come up for that big of a drop is that that’s a lot of respect for Ben Johnson. Uh and you can see that in some of the projections in some of the other Lions uh playmakers whether it’s Aman Ross St. Brown, Jamir Gibbs, you can see it reflected in some of their projections as well. But as I’ve said in the wide receiver and running back videos, I as much as I’m excited to have Ben Johnson as the Bears quarterback, as much as I can see the Lions maybe taking a slight step back, I just don’t I don’t really see this massive drop off for the Lions, especially on offense. They’ve got they’ve got really basically the same roster that they’ve had the last two seasons when they’ve been lights out on offense. And sure, you’re you’re missing you’re missing Ben Johnson who’s been this wonder kid a offensive coordinator, this this great offensive mind that’s put in all these fun trick plays, done all these crazy explosive things. Um, and he’s gone, so I get it. their new co offensive coordinator is a total unknown, but you still got to remember they still got Dan Campbell as as the head coach and a lot of the aggressiveness like going forward on fourth down that came that that has been led by Dian Campbell. So, the Lions, that’s one of the things that that will benefit them in fantasy still is if they continue to be a team that insists on going on going on forward on fourth downs. That’s just more and more plays that Dan Campbell is going to be keeping his offense out there for to make attempts at gaining yards. And as we’ve seen in recent years, it’s worked out for him. They have created that as their identity under Dan Campbell. And it has definitely paid off. Um maybe not necessarily in postseason success as much as they’d like. Um, but still for for what the Lions were basically my whole I mean pretty much their whole f franchise history. Um, you know, Dan Campbell’s got them playing really great. They’ve still got basically the same roster. Um, and you know, and I get it like with Jared Goff, not the most flashy quarterback. He’s pretty much one of one of if not the last he’s one of these he’s one of the veteran quarterbacks that’s one of the last kind of pocket passers left in the league. Um you know and I I know he’s never necessarily been the most exciting. I mean, the Rams traded him, you know, uh they traded for for Matt Stafford and it was seen as, you know, Matt Stafford was the better quarterback and the Rams were getting the better. Um, which I do believe was fair. Um, but of course, Stafford’s a little older. Um but and and but yeah, Josh Jared Goff in his own right might not necessarily be the flashiest quarterback and might not be the best, but he’s he’s improved quite a bit while with the Lions. And again, sure, some of that credit definitely probably does go to Ben Johnson. I just don’t know that Jared Goff himself or the Lions offense as a whole with all those weapons that they have that they still have. They’ve all been that, you know, many of them have been there for so many years now together. I I feel like they’ve got enough chemistry together that even if their win totals come down as a team by a little bit, I just don’t see the offensive production just, you know, shrinking as much as some people seem to think. I I think they’ll still be good. Um so again, Jared Goff, I again I would still say he’s a fringe starting quarterback in fantasy. Um, you know, I would, you know, again, you’re going to be one of, if not the last, uh, fantasy managers drafting a quarterback if you do take Jared Goff. Um, and as a matter of fact, you may be able to, the way Jared Goff is a average is going. Uh, again, he’s a averaging at 13th for quarterback, 112th overall, and that’s with that draft stock going up in in the last week. Um he was lower than that a week ago when I was looking. Um so even his draft stock is going up a little bit, but on average 13th for quarterback. Even if you’re in a 12 team league, you could have a certain you could have a fantasy manager that’s already picked two quarterbacks by now. Um and you know, taking Jared Goff as your starter might be risky. Um but again, I do have him ranked as number 11th. Um, again, it would be a risk, but it would be taking the risk of, you know, you agree with what I’m saying of they’re not going to have as as much of a drop off as people are saying. If they don’t have as much of a drop off, even if Jared Goff’s fantasy point totals drop by 40, he’s going to get 280 points as a quarterback in fantasy, which again is is fringe worthy. And again, he might be a little bit more inconsistent. That’s part of the problem with Jared Goff for fantasy um even with the production. But I think if you get him as a fringe starting quarterback, you know, that means you’ve gotten a lot of other players already for your other positions or maybe you take Jared Goff as a backup quarterback. If you really want to stack up on two quarterbacks early, Jared Goff could be a good chance. And then, hey, you’ve got you got two good C you’ve got two highly picked quarterbacks, you know, more chance that one of those two is going to work for you throughout the season or, you know, you can switch them a little bit. Um, again, that’ll be a lot of value just in quarterback in the first few rounds for you. But, um, again, Jared Goff being a little bit underrated in my opinion. At number 12 on my list, uh, on average, another quarterback that I think is being underrated right now, uh, is Justin Herbert. On average, he’s going 15th for quarterbacks with an average draft position of 118. So, he’s being drafted as a backup quarterback. Um, which I do think he’s is fair. Again, at 12th, I’m I’m basically saying he’s like the last starting worthy quarterback in a 12 team league. um that’s even if that um you know and if you’re in like a 10 team league he he’s a backup in my opinion but he’s a high-end backup quarterback for you in fantasy um you know and part of the problem is is he’s you know he’s in Jim Harbaugh Greg Roman’s offensive scheme which is very it it’s very balanced to running and passing which for the NFL is basically being run centric these days if you’re balanced. So, you know, that doesn’t help for Justin Herbert. Takes down production opportunities he’s got both in passing and even running himself. Um, es especially being that he’s not the biggest running quarterback. Um, and so yeah, it’s just he’s a quarterback that can be quite in inconsistent and that’s the problem. um in 2024, for example, he had eight games scoring higher than 15 points. Uh and he had two games below 10 points. So, um he did have five games where he scored 22 points or more. Um but again, just just very inconsistent in 2024. Um and that’s just kind of how Justin Herbert’s value is in fantasy. Um, you know, it it from 2023 to 2024, his fantasy numbers did go up by 50 points. Um, you know, and if you believe now with one more year under Jim Harbaugh, Chargers have improved that much. I don’t know, maybe his num numbers actually do take more of a jump than the projected, which would have him around 300 this year. Um, and that would be starting quarterback level value. Um, but still the problem with taking Herbert is that even if he does get up that high, he’s still going to be an insconsistent quarterback. Um, and again with with all these quarterbacks, all these fantasy players, yeah, you want to go based off of total value for the season, but you also want to take a look at kind of their week-toeek performance in in previous years because, you know, if they’re going to be inconsistent, uh, them being inconsistent could lose you a g game. A lot of these fantasy games, if you’re if if you’re in a competitive fantasy league, a lot of your games are going to be won or lost by a point. So, if you got any players that are inconsistent, uh, you know, even if you’ve got like top 10 level talent at a certain position, if it’s a player that’s inconsistent, that player could end up costing you a game. Um, and then maybe that player then goes and has uh, you know, a 50point game the next week. Uh, and it’s just a bunch of points that like it’s great. It gets you the win, but that week you destroy a team, uh, you know, another fantasy manager’s team by 50, 100, but the previous week you lost because the same player only got five points. Like, u you know, obviously to some extent those numbers I’m kind of exaggerating, but I’ve experienced that. seen that like if you you know especially with top end quarterbacks, wide receivers, running backs, um you know, and also we we’ll get into this with tight end that big thing with tight end is inconsistency. Um any of these positions though, yeah, you want the players that are going to score more overall throughout the season because even if they’re inconistent, that does mean that they’re more likely to still get good numbers each week. that’ll get you a win. Um, but yeah, if they’re inconsistent enough, even if they’re top five, top 10, they could end up being the reason that you lose a game on any given week. So, uh, yeah, that’s that’s the problem with Justin Herbert, just a little too inconsistent. All right, so next on my list at number 13, I have CJ Strad. Um, on average for quarterbacks, he’s actually going 18th and his average draft position is 136. So, I I think he’s massively being undervalued. Um, I can see the the reason why though. Uh, 2024 was a sophomore slump year for CJ Strad. So, you know, I if if you’ve heard me mention the sophomore slump uh earlier in this video uh in in the past videos for running backs, wide receivers, uh you know, you might be annoyed at me for bringing up the sophomore slump in in the NFL. Um but I just I’ve seen it be a thing with too many players. Uh even in recent years, I’ve just seen it happen too much, you know, especially with with players who had historic level rookie seasons or even just good rookie seasons, you know, when that’s the case in your rookie year, you know, there’s always a chance that even if it’s just due to something like an injury, you have a down year. Um and so for CJ Strad, he was one of them. Um he in 2023 CJ Strad got 276 fantasy points. In 2024 that number dropped down to 220. Uh so not very good there. A regression of 76 points. Uh and 220 is not that great for a fantasy quarterback. So he definitely hit the sophomore slump there. Uh in 2023 though he did finish ninth among quarterbacks. So, I mean, that’s the thing is finished ninth as a rookie quarterback in 2023. Uh, he won offensive rookie of the year, of course, as a quarterback there. Um, you know, and and he the te the Texans this season, they’ve added some more weapons. They no longer have Stfan Diggs. Um, but, you know, I I think they’ve got some okay talent there for for the Texans. Um, you know, I feel like I’ve got a little bit more faith in the Texans still being fine uh this year. And I know there’s even some that feel like the Texans are going to regress. I don’t necessarily believe that. U again, I I just feel like CJ Shroud has had a bit of a bit of a down year in in season two and I I think he’ll bounce back from that this year. Um, and ESPN agrees with me as well. As I mentioned, CJ Strad, his first season, 276. In 2024, 220. ESPN’s projection this season, they’ve got him projected for 276.7. So, even ESPN’s projections, they they’re projecting him to bounce back exactly to where he was as a rookie. um even if he doesn’t b bounce back to that um being drafted on average 18th for quarterback, that’s a pretty good value. So, you know, if you want to wait again all the way to around 136, you know, that that’s a pretty late round draft pick, you know, if you want to draft a fantasy uh backup quarterback. That’s the thing. You don’t always have to draft draft two quarterbacks. You can draft one quarterback and be just fine. Um, you know, I know a lot of especially inexperienced fantasy players think you have to draft a backup quarterback. Um, and I was one of those. Uh, and even now, like I I still will occasionally, you know, about 50% of the time I will draft two quarterbacks on any given team. Um, just because with with any position, you do have things like a by-week. Um, that’s a guarantee. Every player is going to have a by-week. Uh, which is another thing that you do want to, you know, you might want to monitor a little bit as you’re drafting. You know, monitor what by-weeks you’re ending up with on some of your players. Uh, you know, you might want to try to stagger those by-weeks so that you don’t end up having a week where just everybody on your roster’s off. Um, but that that’s another small reason you could get a backup quarterback is at the very least, you know, you’re going to have one week where you’re going to need another. Um, but you don’t necessarily need a backup quarterback because certainly, especially if you get one of the one of the top end quarterbacks like a Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, you might not really need a backup. Now, of course, if you did invest that much value in a quarterback and heaven forbid one of them gets hurt and you don’t have a backup quarterback, your drop off in fantasy points per week might drop off a ton. So maybe you do even still want a backup quarterback. And that’s the thing, you can get some of these fantasy backup quarterbacks pretty late in the draft. So CJ Strad going 18th overall for quarterback, I think he would be a great pickup for you. You know, if you’ve got a if you’ve got Lamar Jackson, um or Josh Allen, for example, or heck, maybe you get Joe Burrow, who has had injury concerns. um you know again has quite often missed at least three four weeks in a season. If you pick Joe Joe Bau up a CJ Stroud could be good if if you pick up both of them and it turns out they’re both having a a pretty good season. They’re producing well. Uh maybe Joe Burrow has a light injury. You know, I’m I’m not going to speak anything into existence, but um you know, he’s injured for a week or two. Again, you also are just going to have a automatic buy. Um, I don’t know if their by-weeks are the same. I’d have to check that. But maybe you take a Josh Allen and you or yeah, maybe you’ve taken a a Joe Burough who injuries are a concern for him. You could take a CJ Shroud who, in my opinion, is being very undervalued. And at the very least, you’ve got CJ Shroud that you can if you want to choose to hold on to for when Joe Burrow ends up getting hurt slash when when he’s on his by-week. So, uh, you know, you don’t have to draft a backup quarterback, but all these quarterbacks at this point, of course, are going to be backups, uh, that you’re going to either be be stashing for in case your your starting quarterback, uh, gets injured, has a by-week, or if they’re, you know, really struggling or playing too inconsistently for you. Um, so CJ Shroud, really good value for where he’s getting drafted on average. Uh, at number 14th on my list, uh, I have Caleb Williams with the Chicago Bears. Uh, in 2024, he finished with 254.5 fantasy points, which for the discourse around Caleb Williams and having such a bad year, as some people like to say, 254.5 isn’t crazy, but those are decent fantasy numbers for a quarterback. Um, and certainly for a running for for a rookie quarterback, good numbers. Sure. In fantasy, was it as good as Jaden Daniels? No. Was it as good as, you know, even Boon Knicks, stuff like that in fantasy last year? No, it wasn’t. Um, but like if you look at their numbers in fantasy, okay, so he was 100 points behind Jaden Daniels. Okay. You know, again, I’m not saying that obviously I’ve got uh Caleb Williams all the way down here at number 14th. Um very much a backup level fantasy quarterback. Even though he plays for the Bears, um even though Caleb Williams plays for the Bears and you know, I want him to succeed and I think he’s going to be improved in 2025. even I am not going to be massively overdrafting Caleb Williams. Um I wouldn’t mind if I got him. Uh but you know, even if I do draft him, I’m going to be drafting Caleb Williams as a backup quarterback. Um with the hopes that he has massive upside and becomes my starting fantasy quarterback. Uh, but yeah, in as a matter of fact, in in the drafts I’ve done so far, I actually haven’t ended up with Caleb Williams because he’s been picked higher than I was comfortable with taking him. Um, but but yeah, I mean, for the narrative that that’s out there of Caleb had a terrible rookie season, the fantasy numbers, his stats don’t necessarily match that. Yes, he did have he didn’t have the greatest season. Certainly lower than the high expectations that were on him as the number one overall pick um and the comparisons that were put on him. Uh you know, likely unfairly by fans and by the media. Um Caleb still had an okay year. Again, the main thing that that he struggled with was taking too many sacks, things like that. He he’s he’s a decent running quarterback. uh he’s got a little bit more of a style comparable to like a Patrick Mahomes um but you know knows how to improvise which sometimes can be his downfall and that’s something that Ben Johnson is working hard with him on this off season. But that that’s part of the thing is I think this could really work out for Caleb Williams. Um and I I can see ESPN for example they they agree that Caleb Williams will be uh improved. uh he he scored 254 in 2024. ESPN has Caleb Williams projected at 280 for 2025, which wouldn’t be a crazy improvement. Um but even if even if it’s just that much, it’s incremental enough. And I, you know, as a Bears fan, maybe biased, but I think you could improve even more, get up closer to like 300 F fantasy points if things go well. Um, and even if the Bears aren’t a playoff team, even if the Bears are just nine and eight, like that’s the thing. Caleb Williams got 254 fantasy points as a rookie when the Bears only won five games in the regular season. So, uh, you know, with a coach that got fired mid-season, with a offensive coordinator that got fired even earlier into the season, um, Caleb Williams with all the narrative that was around it. Again, he he struggled with sacks, but, uh, in 2024, he finished with 300 3,541 passing yards, 20 touchdowns, and six interceptions. uh and a decent runner as well. So, you know, he he has some value there. Can was was a little bit inconsistent. Um and you know, the ceiling to his performance in 2024 wasn’t crazy high. Um but for me, it really the biggest thing fantasy-wise as far as why I’m not willing to overdraft him as a Bears fan is just the fact that he was so inconsistent. Um, as I’ve mentioned already before, for me, I do believe consistency very much matters in fantasy. So, that’s why for me, I’m not going to overdraft him. Certainly not to the point of drafting him as a starting quarterback. Um, you know, as a backup, I’d love to get the chance to get him, but I’m going to try to not overdraft him either. Um, but I still think if, you know, if you want a backup quarterback that maybe has some upside, if you believe that Ben Johnson can, again, even if the Bears aren’t necessarily a winning team this year, uh, but if if they’re able to turn the offense around and the offense is able to produce points, um, even if it ends up being they lose some some close games, uh, you know, they’ll probably have a better record than than five wins at least. I certainly hope so. But even if they just improve to an eight and nine and eight, that kind of thing, it could be because Caleb Williams and the offense has produced a ton more points than they were. So, uh, I think Caleb Williams draft him as a backup quarterback, uh, with the hope that the Bears offense has some upside in 2025. At number 15 on my list, uh so the the final for my top 15, I have Dak Prescott, who on average is going 11th for quarterbacks, uh average draft position of 93. Uh and that has skyrocketed in the last few days. A week ago when I first started preparing some of these videos and first started doing some of some of the drafts I’ve already been in just a week ago Dak’s average draft position was like 110. So he’s gone up by like a round or two. Um and as I said all these quarterback average draft numbers have just inflated. So um you know obviously Dak Prescott he’s on the Cowboys. So most popular brand in sports really certainly in American sports. So obviously there’s a likely chance that you’ve got a Cowboys fan uh that’s going to be in in your leagues. Uh certainly if that’s the case, there’s a chance that they might be willing to draft them higher than the average. Um and also part of why the average for Dak Prescott is so high. Um of course the Dallas offense does have plenty going for it. You’ve got CD Lamb who is a top wide receiver. Uh, you know, you’ve got, you know, Dak in his own right is a good quarterback. Um, you you’ve got, you know, Jake Ferguson. The Cowboys have added George Pickkins. Um, you know, I’m not the most confident in what Dallas as a whole is going to do. Um, but I do think they could have a good good season on as an offense. Um, Dak did have a pretty bad year in 2024 for Fantasy, mainly just due to being injured and missing really a good portion of the season. So, uh, 2023, Dak had scored 342 points. So, uh, he he was pretty good in in 2023, top 10 starting level little quarterback. So, you know, and that that is fair. just two years ago, he was definitely, you know, starting level fantasy quarterback, you know, fringe maybe, but still starting level. Um, you know, and and the Cowboys offense in recent years has shown that ability to be explosive, but it’s just they’ve in the last couple of seasons, they really struggle in the run game. They don’t seem to have done much to improve that even this year. So, the problem is they just, you know, they’ve also, again, they fired the coach. A lot of the moves, you know, that’s going on, the the Michael Parsons drama, all that stuff with the Cowboys makes me concerned for them as a whole and even just for their fantasy production, and I think also part of the problem last year, maybe part of why Dak got injured when he did, is the fact that their running game is so bad as an offense. Um, you know, also their offensive line didn’t necessarily improve this off season. Um, you know, again, their their their running backs haven’t necessarily improved, certainly not very much. Um, and so that’s the problem. It just makes their offense too one-sided. And so you just, you know, it’s easier for defense to pin their their ears back, go after Dak Prescott, who can run and again is a good passer and stuff. Overall, he’s an okay quarterback. And the Cowboys do have some okay weapons for him to pass to. But when you’re one-sided offense that doesn’t have a good run game, you know, you put your quarterback at risk healthwise over time and you just make it harder for the pass game to succeed long term throughout the season. So, um, yeah, Dak’s average draft position at 11, I can understand it, especially based off of 2023. you know, if if you’re going to go based off of just simply I think Dak Prescott is going to stay healthy in 2025, okay, obviously he’s going to have a improved year from 2024. That’s a given. Um ESPN has him projected at 285 for this season. Um which would earn him position up there at round 11, which is fair. Um, I just again I’m maybe a little bit more concerned about the Cowboys offense and even Dak’s health and ability to stay healthy with the offense and the team that they’ve got around him. Um, so yeah, that’s why for me Dak Prescott finds himself at 15th. Still a backup worthy quarterback though. Um, but with maybe some good upside. You know, maybe I’m wrong. he could have some great upside as a backup quarterback for you. Uh, and lastly on my list, I did want to add an honorable honorable mention. I haven’t done this on all these fantasy videos this year, but one honorable mention that I did want to bring up is Justin Fields with the New York Jets. Little tough to know what exactly to do with him. He’s on his third team last season with the Steelers. Didn’t play in that many games. But the thing is with Justin Fields is when he is playing uh he brings tons of fantasy value because he is predominantly a running quarterback. Of course, that was when he was with the Bears. That was what he was he was mostly good at. And even with the Steelers for the few games that he did play, um he had a game last season where he scored over 30 points and that was against the Colts. Um I believe it was like week six, something like that. Um so yeah, I mean last season like he wasn’t very consistent for the six weeks that he was in. He had that 30 30 bomb game and then he had a couple that were like 10 11. Um so it wasn’t very consistent. But that’s the other thing too is he was in that quarterback situation the Steelers had of you know sharing the room with Russell Wilson and things like that. So this year he’s now with the Jets. He is the starting quarterback. It’s not this running quarterback by committee or running or this this it’s not a quarterback committee situation. You know, he’s not got some you know, the Jets don’t have like an obvious replacement or rookie that they’ve drafted to compete with him. So he’s got the starting job. you know, as long as as Fields plays reasonably well, which certainly in the run game, and you know, again, he’s an okay passer as well. He’s not great, but he’s an insane runner for a quarterback. So, uh, you know, he he’ll get you some weeks if you draft him as a backup uh quarterback here. Um, on average, he is actually being drafted 12th for quarterbacks. Um, still, so even higher than where I’ve got him. His average draft position is 111 currently. A little high for me. Um but again, those numbers are just going up. So for many of us, we’re just going to have to start drafting quarterbacks a bit earlier than we’d like. Um but that’s okay. If everybody’s doing it, then then it’s, you know, it kind of cancels it out a little bit if everybody’s doing it. Um but yeah, Justin Fields, I you could draft him as a backup quarterback. uh even a late end backup quarterback um is is where I would value him at. Um so again, another quarterback I probably won’t end up with because chances are most leagues there’s going to be somebody that values him more than I do, even if they’re just going based off of like ESPN projections cuz they do project him to get 296 points uh this season. Uh, you know, part of my concern with that, too, is even though he’s a great running quarterback, which brings a lot of fantasy points, again, he’s kind of inconsistent um for fantasy points. And then also, he’s never finished a full season uh even when he was with the Bears, never finished a full healthy season where he played all 17 games. So, he’s another quarterback and and it’s not like he was super injuryprone and missed a ton of games, but he’s a quarterback that especially because he does run a ton and that’s a lot of his value. You know, that means he’s going to be putting himself at more risk than some quarterbacks are. So, uh you know, with him, he’s going to be quite possibly an inconsistent quarterback. He may be one that you pick up just to stream, you know, if you want to stream your quarterbacks a little bit. Maybe Justin Fields has a has a great ma matchup coming up and there the Jets are put up against a defense that’s that’s shown itself to be bad against the run. Take, you know, put Justin Fields in as your starter. So, he’s he’s a quarterback that that’s what I would draft him for if anything is he would be my backup quarterback and I would just have whoever it was I had starting in there most weeks and then if maybe that quarterback got injured or whatever, obviously I’d switch him. Um, but I would mostly just keep if I did draft Justin Fields, I would just hold on to him. uh you know, hoping that you know, if I see he’s got a matchup coming up that I think I might want to sub him in, uh you know, even if my starting quarterback is is healthy, I might sub Justin Fields in because I think he’s going to run all over this defense. So, yeah, kind of a matchup type of quarterback. Uh but but a decent running a great running quarterback. So even then, even if he does end up having to become your starter for a good portion of the year, he could he could win you some games. So that’s going to round out my list. Uh my apologies for the length that this video is. It’s going to end up being much longer than any of the other fantasy videos uh that I’m going to have out this week. Um so if you’ve watched this far, thank you very much. Again, if you’ve watched this far, you’ve probably already subscribed, but if you haven’t, go hit that subscribe button. hit hit the notification bell. You know, let me down know down in the video what you thought of my rankings. Uh what quarterback do you want to get in your draft? What no matter the position, what’s the one quarterback that you hope to get? Cuz that’s the other thing too that I didn’t want to add before I end this is with all these players, doesn’t matter the position. Obviously, you want to you want to win. That’s part of the fun. But, you know, some people just draft for for the fun of it and for the goofiness of it. Some people that are, especially like more casual fans, they might pick a player because they, you know, in some leagues, you’re going to have these players that they just pick a guy because they like his name, they like the team he’s playing for. Uh they like, uh, the color of the team. Um, you know, you’re going to have players like that. Um, but also just even even for hardcore fans. Yeah. You want players that are good, but you also want to draft players that you like to watch, whether they’re on your team or they’re just one that you find interesting. So, again, like I said, past seasons, I’ve always had Patrick Mahomes on at least one team. And that’s kind of been intentional because I do enjoy watching Patrick Mahomes. I generally know that the the Chiefs are going to be good every year. I know they’re going to be in a lot of prime time games. So, you know, I know that I’m going to have plenty of opportunities to watch Patrick Mahomes and not only see how he does, but enjoy, you know, when he has success because it brings me success on my fantasy team. Again, unfortunately, I’ve been with Patrick Mahomes specifically burned a little bit too much in the last couple seasons. So, uh, that combined with Patrick Mahomes average draft value this season, probably not going to take him at all really this year. Um, but that’s okay. Uh, you know, I’m maybe I get a Caleb Williams because he’s on the Bears and I, again, that’s the thing. You might not want to draft Caleb Williams at all. And again, I’m going to try to not overdraft him at all, which is part of why I may miss out on him a lot. Um, but I’m going to try to probably have Caleb Williams in at least one league. Um, just because again, especially if he does end up doing really well, I know I’m going to be watching every single Bears game. So, if he’s doing well and the Bears are doing all right and he’s on one of my fantasy teams, that’s just, you know, going to stack on on on top of it. So, you know, again, don’t just draft players based off of their average draft position, their projected numbers, whatever. you know, also draft the players that you want to draft. That’s that’s the thing at the end of the day. Like obviously this is all for fun. You might be in a in a league where money is on the line. So, and that’s money or dares are on the line. If that’s the case, go for the win. But, uh uh you know, still even if you’re going for the win, you can you can strate strategize your your draft board. Um, you know, especially if some of these top players are on your favorite team. Maybe you’re a Bengals fan and you want to make sure you get as many of uh Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, T. Higgins, Chase Brown. Uh, you you want to make sure you get as much of those as you can. You you can strategize a little bit. Uh, you know, Jamar Chase, not really. You’re going to have to get lucky and get uh put as the number one pick overall for him pretty much. But, uh, the other ones, if you wanted to gear yourself towards drafting mostly Bengals players because you’re a Bengals fan, you can do that if you if you want to. In some some rounds, you may have to overdraft here a little bit, but um, you can strategize and that can still, especially depending on the team or the players that you like, you can draft based off of interest and still win uh, and be a pretty successful fantasy manager. might be a little bit more tough uh in some areas if you do it too much. But um yeah, I mean I did it years ago uh the year 2020 uh 2013 all the way back the last time the Bears had a decent offense. Uh and yes, that’s that’s how I’ve been playing fantasy for many years now. Um, that year I drafted I remember I had a team where I I had and this was I was newer to fantasy so I didn’t really care about average draft position. I drafted on one team. I had Jay Cutler, I had Matt Forte, I had uh I had Brandon Marshall, I had Martellus Bennett. Um, and that team actually did pretty well. Um, so yeah, you can do that. Um, now, you know, if you’re going to draft all those players from the same team that’s your favorite team, you do want it to be on a year where they’re actually doing good. Um, that’s why generally you want to just draft players based off how they are and maybe mix in a couple players that are drafted based off of interest. Um because yeah, if you’re drafting players from many different teams, the overall team success of that team isn’t going to necessarily hurt hurt you as much if they don’t do well. Um but if you do, you know, the more players you draft from one team, the more you are tied to that team’s record. So, um without without any further talking, again, I do appreciate you watching. Um, let me know down below who you want as your fantasy quarterback. I appreciate you. Tight ends is next. I will see you in that video tomorrow.
