Lineup Fantasy Football Show - Top-24 QB Rankings & Tiers | Dynasty Fantasy Football 2026

Episode Date: May 25, 2026

Ranking and tiering the top-24 dynasty fantasy football quarterbacks! From elite dynasty cornerstones in the S-Tier, to some less proven lottery tickets in D-Tier, we're giving you the full tier list so you know exactly who to build around and who to sell high onWhether you're in a startup draft, rebuilding your dynasty roster, or just trying to figure out if your QB could be a league winner... this is the episode you need before your next trade offer hitsTimestamps:0:00 - Dynasty Fantasy Football QB Rankings 0:26 - Josh Allen 1:03 - Drake Maye 2:20 - Jayden Daniels 3:18 - Lamar Jackson 4:25 - Joe Burrow 5:35 - Caleb Williams 7:13 - Justin Herbert 8:46 - Patrick Mahomes 10:23 - Jaxson Dart 12:08 - Jalen Hurts 13:03 - Trevor Lawrence 14:16 - Brock Purdy 15:48 - Bo Nix 16:45 - Jordan Love 18:23 - Fernando Mendoza 20:05 - Dak Prescott 21:28 - Cam Ward 23:00 - Tyler Shough 24:42 - CJ Stroud 25:40 - Baker Mayfield 26:52 - Kyler Murray 27:53 - Malik Willis 29:13 - Bryce Young 30:17 - Jared Goff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we are breaking the consensus you see everywhere to give you our top 24 quarterbacks in Dynasty Fantasy Football, rankings and tiers, including one sneaky QB1 that you'll want to stick around for. Welcome into the lineup fantasy football show. I'm Mitch Anderson. I'm Justin Mello. And Mello, as you can see, the jersey's been replaced. It's quarterback time. We don't have Trey Lance today. He fell just outside of the top 24. But we're talking about a much better quarterback for our top guy. No surprises here. It's Josh Allen. And I don't want to glaze Josh Allen. more than I have to as a Patriots fan. I can see the hat here, but he's the easy 1.1 in Superflex League, the top quarterback in any format.

He's been a quarterback one for the last six years, top two quarterback each of the last six years, just a fantasy cheat code. Despite being 30 now, he's still easily the top quarterback in Dynasty for me. I think I've made it a catchphrase of mine on this show to say we're not going to waste anybody's time, so I'm not going to add anything. He's the gold standard of fantasy football and you've hit on everything. You didn't want to glaze him as a Patriots fan, but let's glaze this next guy. And that is Drake May, age 23 of the New England Patriots.

Give me a little Drake May analysis. Oh, I love talking Drake May. It's hard to argue against a 23-year-old quarterback coming off what was almost an MVP season. Probably would have been an MVP season in a lot of different years. He's an elite deep ball thrower. He's super efficient. He has rushing upside. And now he gets AJ Brown, or at least.

so we think. We don't know that for sure yet, but likely we'll have AJ Brown. Everything's coming together. Early offseason, I was a little worried just like kind of with the Super Bowl fresh on my mind, but I'm all the way back. Drake May is easily my second quarterback in Dynasty. Yeah, QB2 last season in many ways he was the Prince who was promised for everyone who had him as a Dynasty fantasy football sleeper. Now we're projecting he's going to have AJ Brown even if he doesn't. He'd still have this number two spot. You can call him the schedule all you want, but after after Josh Allen, the 23-year-old quarterback in New England is the number one guy I would want. That being said, and we're going to get into this when we talk redraft, he's actually not my number

two for redrafts. He's a little bit lower. It's really the age that factors into this, though, and being attached to Mike Vrable and thinking he's going to have a lot of years to perform. But let's get into number three, a guy I actually have ranked a little higher in redraft. A little teaser there. Let's talk Jaden Daniels, the 25-year-old quarterback out of Washington. Give me your takes on Jaden. Yeah, same draft class. another amazing young quarterback. Really the only fear is if he continues this RG3 trajectory

where they both were drafted to Washington, second overall, one rookie of the year, brought him to the playoffs, and then had a second year full of injuries. With RG3, obviously, it didn't get better from there. But I'm not projecting that for Jaden Daniels at all. I think he'll be totally fine. He is a great bet to be a fantasy cheat code for years and years to come. He has elite, elite, elite mobility at the quarterback position,

a great passer as well, which is such a rare combination. and just 25 years old. Yeah, we talk about this. I hate the injury-prone label so much. I think people have been very quick to forget how incredible Jaden Daniels was his rookie year. And so I'm burning the tape on a really difficult year in Washington and the combo of what Jaden Daniels does in the air

and on the ground I feel like is only rivaled by our next guy. And that's number four, Lamar Jackson, the 29-year-old quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens. I'll just start here. It's almost an identical argument to Jaden in the sense of burning the tape. tape of an injury-riddled year. But the difference to me is that Lamar has a way larger sample size of success to go off of rather than Jaden with just the one year. He literally scored

the most fantasy points by a quarterback in history in 2024. The difference here why he's a little bit lower is the age. But you want Lamar Jackson on your team. Agreed. Yeah, I think if you want to put him lower because of the age, I'm more okay with that than the injury concerns. Yes. That doesn't really scare me at all. I think he'll be totally fine. He's, to me, really. the only guy who I think has a real chance of dethrining Josh Allen as the QB1 next year, if we're looking short term. And I say that because he was the quarterback one over Josh Allen just two years ago. So he easily could do it again. 100%. Mello, I'm going to propose a tier break here to drop off of the S tier, because I think this is where we kind of get off of our dual threat

S tier range. And we're going to break into number five, the best pocket passing quarterback in the NFL, another 29 year old, and that is Joe Burrow. Yeah, I mean, couldn't said it better myself far away the best pocket passer in the league particularly if you don't count mahomes as a pocket passer which i don't i think behombs is mobile enough to not have that label uh but joe burrow breaks all of the fantasy rules he is the exception to those rules because he's such a good passer and on top of that he's tied to probably the best wide receiver duo in the league they're both young obviously jimar chastey higgins they're both lockins and snati for a while so the situation just is so beautiful yeah joe burrow should have won

the MVP last year as soon as we saw what this Bengals offense was with Jake Browning. Again, I feel like I'm a broken record, but throwaway 2025, you look at 2024, he had 43 touchdowns. Even last year when he returned from injury, he was the QB5 from weeks 13 through 17. I think age and the amount of hits this guy takes are probably the concerns I have. But even so, you said it attached to two of the best wide receivers in the NFL, like he's going to be good for a lot more years as long as he wants to play. 100%. Let's jump into number six. Mello, I think this is where we started to have our differences in our rankings. I had this guy ranked a lot higher than you, and that's Caleb Williams. I'm going to let you start the 24-year-old quarterback out of Chicago.

Yeah, I'm definitely much lower than him or on him than consensus, which is weird because I don't even necessarily feel like I'm an anti-Kaleb guy. Like, I feel like I like Caleb. It's just I like some of these other guys more, certainly the guys we've already talked about, and a couple guys we're going to talk about later. or two. But I do like Caleb. I think if I am being critical, though, the one thing is, even though last year was good and we saw great flashes, he was very, very inconsistent, which scares me. I think the downside is we see a similar to Trevor Lawrence arc, where this is this first overall pick, rookie year disaster, second year took a huge step up, and then kind of crumbled and slid a little bit for the back half of his rookie contract before, obviously, Trevor Lawrence rebounded. I think that's in the cards for Caleb, which scares me a little bit. But I'm actually not predicting that.

I think he'll continue to be very good. I love that he's tied to Ben Johnson. So I don't have a problem with you or consensus having him higher than me. I think we have very different philosophies. I think I'm an optimist and a dreamer at heart. And so I'd just like to believe that this Caleb Williams experiment

is going to keep getting better and better. And so I think I've just kind of become the de facto bears guy here. But I think it's the age. I think it's that step that you mentioned that he took in his sophomore year. He's 24 years old. Last year's QB6.

And I think the Ben Johnson, of it all really fires me up. And so I actually had Caleb Williams as my three. And he just kind of evened out to settle here at our number six. But let's jump into our number seven. I will absolutely let you start here. You've been screaming this guy's name from the rooftops all summer long. I think a lot of people are finally getting on your side. And that's Justin Herbert, the 28-year-old quarterback out of L.A. I'm an optimist when it comes to Justin Herbert. I am a pessimist most of the time. Yeah, this is the guy I'll be so glass-half-full with. I just want to be. I just want to buy stock in this Chargers offense. Once you get both of these elite tackles back in

healthy, you get Mike McDaniel in town. I want pieces of this offense. And people forget, early in Justin Herbert's career, he was a consensus top three quarterback in any dynasty ranking you looked at. Even in redraft when he was, you know, 23, 24, he was going as one of the first couple quarterbacks off the board. I think we would see him rebound to something closer to that. Obviously, probably not reach those heights again, given he is so much older now. But he still is just 28 and an offense that I really like going forward and just one of the most talented real-life quarterbacks in the NFL. Yeah, absolutely. We've talked about too, like Mike McDaniel coming to town, Joe Alt and Roshan Slater coming back healthy. We've been all over the Lab McCongy breakout.

And he's a slept-on-duel threat quarterback. He actually finished last year second in rushing yards amongst QBs, only to Josh Allen. And he's one of those guys that I think he has a PR problem. I think it's the if-man stuff that we just don't want to rank him high. I feel like he had a PR problem in a good way early on in his career. He's being treated as the Messiah. And now we're like hating on Justin Herbert way too much. So this is one of those guys that I would not be shocked if next year we've moved him up a little bit even as he's like 29 years old. Yeah, I completely agree with that.

Let's jump to number eight, the best quarterback in the real life NFL. That's Patrick Mahomes, number 30. It's not number 30, age 30, but you jump into Mahomes. Mahomes, if he were the 30 jersey, I would be out. We would have to drop him in these rankings for wearing 30. But you're right. He's probably the best real-life quarterback in the NFL, future Hall of Famer. It makes it really tough to put him this slow.

But there are some concerns compared to the other guys we have ahead of them. The ACL he's coming off of obviously is a big one. That's more short-term than long-term. But also just generally in Kansas City, I don't feel great about these weapons. Don't even get me started on Rishi Rice. I'll get too upset. But that whole situation is a disaster. and then beyond him, there really aren't great proven pass catchers except Travis Kelsey,

who's like almost as old as my grandfather. So the situation is enough to move him down this low. But with that said, it's Patrick Fricking Mahomes. Like, I'm not going to tell you to not go out and acquire Patrick Mahomes. I've said this before. Everyone's all fired up that he's going to be back for training camp in week one. And like, I can see it. I just have the fear that the mobility is not going to be the way it was before and that he's

going to have to take some time, like get up to speed. That's more of a redraft issue, though, so I have no problem having him here for Dynasty. But you mentioned this earlier on in the offseason. He was the QB2 before he got hurt last season. Now you bring in Eric B. Enemy, who he had before, that he had two MVP seasons with. I think Boholmes is one of those guys that, in fantasy, I think, has burned some people, and you might be able to get him at a decent value. Yeah, I would agree with that.

Let's move on to number nine, another player that we were very far off from each other in our rankings. And that is Jackson Dart. This one's not crazy, but let me start on Jackson Dart, my future 2026 MVP from the Hot Takes episode. The biggest comparison everyone's on is the Drake May comparison. Rookies with over 400 rushing yards in their rookie year have hit on their ADP 100% of the time since 2015. Jim Harbaugh comes in, or sorry, John Harbaugh comes in,

who knows a little thing or two about making a dual-threat quarterback into an MVP caliber player. And I think for fantasy, this is going to be a match made in heaven and also brought in Isaiah likely that I thought was huge for him. He gets Malik neighbors this year. I think Jackson Dart has a great, great future ahead of them. Yeah, I mean, I am lower. I guess that makes me the pessimist and a coward maybe.

But, I mean, I get it. Early off season, I was even hyping up Jackson Dart. And I still fully understand it because, I mean, it's all hypothetical upside as opposed to anything that's really materialized yet. But with that said, it's still a whole lot of upside nonetheless. less. There's no denying that it's there. He has the mobility. He has the youth. He has an elite young number one receiver and Malik neighbors. All of the ingredients are there for him to just be a complete smash, a complete elite asset for years to come. Yeah. And I think on your side,

if I'm going to play Devils Advocate against myself, is we're projecting a whole lot out of Jackson Dart that we haven't even seen yet. And I think there's reason too, but I also understand your perspective of like wanting to see a little something more before we start crowning him. Yeah, it's risky, but I mean the ceiling is super high. Specifically above this next guy that has proven year in and year out, he can be a QB1, regardless of how the offense performs. And that's the 27-year-old quarterback out of Philadelphia, Jalen Hertz. Break down Jalen Hertz for me. I've kind of become the Jalen Hertz guy this offseason, which I don't really like.

I don't want to be like an Eagles like apologists, but here I am. I mean, we've talked about about it on the show. He's just been so underrated because of how disastrous last season was, which by the way, last season he was still the quarterback eight. So is that really that much of a disaster? But I really think this offense is going to turn it around with the personnel changes. More importantly, the new play caller. The tush push isn't getting banned, which it's kind of hilarious, but that play actually does matter a whole lot for Jalen Hertz's fantasy outlook. Absolutely. And it's not going anywhere. So I think he's just going to continue to be a fantasy stud and everybody's overreacting. I completely agree. Kevin Patole out of the building. You,

You lose AJ Brown, but you bring him a Kyle Lemon, and I've talked about him so much, but I'll break down him a little bit further when we get into our top 24 wide receivers. Let's move on to number 11. We mentioned him earlier. Out of Jacksonville, the 26-year-old quarterback, Trevor Lawrence, who finally had the breakout year we were all waiting for in 2025. Thank God he didn't actually cut his hair the way he did in that schedule release video. I thought he did. I might have dropped him to like 30. Yeah, no, I was terrified for his outlook when I saw.

that haircut. But we just have to hope he doesn't regress again like he did after 2022 because we did see the little bit, a little bit of a breakout after his sophomore season. I think he keeps it up, though. I think he'll still be good. And if he continues to get the manufactured goal line rushes, then even we who like him have him too low because he was getting some Josh Allen kind of usage down by the goal line on design runs. I don't know that that will continue, but if it does, he could be a fantasy cheat code. 100%. Best year of his career through the air, too, on the ground. He was absolutely crushing in yards and touchdowns. He had nine on the ground. And he was the QB1 from week 10 on. The reason I think the both of us are believers is that there was a material change this year behind why Trevor Lawrence performed better. And that was a Liam Cohen system. That was having Parker Washington on your side. And that's a lot of good ingredients to make a great year for Trevor Lawrence. Jumping into our final QB1 is Brock Purdy from the San Francisco. 49ers who took that man's job.

26 years old. And Mello, I want to break something down for you. He spent a lot of time last year injured, and so I think a lot of people are kind of forgetting about Brock Purdy. I actually had an MVP bet going into the year on him, so that was devastating. But he had an absolutely crazy fantasy playoffs last year. Week 15, he was the QB4, week 16, the QB1,

and week 17, the QB1. I believe, I think I'm quoting this correctly, that it was the best fantasy football run from a quarterback ever in the playoffs. Totally insane. I think he is the most underwhelming name who is actually just an incredible fantasy asset. I think it's like the last overall pick thing like sticks with him even though we all know he's good. He's still just 26 years old. You mentioned how good he was down the stretch last year. He's been a quarterback won in points per game every single year, the last three years

straight. When you put it like that, it almost feels like we have them too low here at 12. Yeah, and we're actually above consensus for Brock Purdy, which I find absolutely nuts. I think there's a stink and a, like you said, like a boringness to Brock Purdy. He's definitely like a Coles kind of guy. He was originally getting me like my, oh, he was my Walmart guy when we did our comparisons episode. So I think he's a boring guy that you can get at a value that's a lot better than a few of these names are about to list that people are ranking above him.

100% agree. He's an aggressive buy for me. Next up is a guy that you would figure is a lot younger than Brock Purdy just based on how long each of them has been in the league. And that is out of Denver, the 26. year old quarterback, Bo Nix. Bo Nix is an interesting guy because he's only been in the league a couple years, but like you mentioned, he's older than you would expect. And despite him only being the league a couple years, I kind of think we've seen Bo Nix close to or maybe even at his ceiling.

But the good news is I don't think he's falling from it anytime soon. I think he's going to continue to be a good quarterback, a good fantasy quarterback. To me, he's like the ideal quarterback to in a IST League. If you can get him as your quarterback too, that's not only good, that's great. And he'll just give you a steady, you know, 18 points or whatever you need for the next however many years. Yeah, I love what you said. The ceiling won't go much higher, but the floor is really, really high for Bo Nix. I've considered myself a Bo Lever in the past. And so he's firmly one of my high end QB2s, if not clearly the highest NQB2. That brings us to another guy down below that I think is similarly ranked in my brain, and that's Jordan Love, 27 years old, out of Green Bay.

And I'll let you break this down first, because I think we feel similarly. Yeah, he's just, from a fantasy football perspective, specifically, he's probably the least exciting guy on this list in terms of like the upside and the flashiness. I mean, he has no rushing upside whatsoever. He barely takes off and runs. He has less than elite passing ability, although I will say he is a very good passer, but I'd say less than elite. But the reality is he's a young, good real-life quarterback.

And you can just count on him to produce quarterback two numbers for years and years to come. And just because of the nature of the position, like, he's going to be outscoring your opponent's RB2s and wide receiver 3s, which makes him very valuable even though he's not that fun. Yeah, I don't want to say that he doesn't have a ceiling pass being a QB2 because like, I don't know if he remember his rookie year. He was the QB5. And then since then he's had a QB15. QB 17 finish. I just don't think LaFleur wants him dropping back and attempting 500 passes anymore. I don't think that's the philosophy of how they want to run the offense in Green Bay.

But like, like you said, like in a Super Flex League, he's going to be outscoring a lot of guys that you might be drafting, like, higher-end running backs just because he is a quarterback that can get, like, decently high-end production. And so he's a consistent guy that I don't mind at all ranking at 14, because I think you kind of know what you're getting with Jordan Love. It's a very safe pick. Very, very safe pick.

Let's go to another guy that we've actually seen nothing from at number 15 that might not be as safe. And that is the 22-year-old quarterback Fernando Mendoza now with the Las Vegas Raiders. I'll let you start. Yeah, rookie, first rookie on the list. If he becomes his predecessor in Kirk Cousins, and I mean on the field, because off the field they are already are the same person in terms of their personality. But if he can just become Kirk Cousins and have this similar. kind of career. I think that would make him worth where he's being ranked now. Like, Kirk Cousins had a very good long career. He's worth what he's being valued at if he becomes Kurt Cousins. But I think

the potential is more than that. When you look at, I mean, his perceived talent is first overall pick worthy, whereas Kurt Cousins was a day three pick, not saying Kirk should have been, obviously, but I think his ceiling is higher than what the career of Kirk Cousins was. As long as the Raiders don't ruin him, that's my one share. I don't know. that I love the Raiders organization making it work with the number one overall pick quarterback. When's that gone wrong? When is that gone wrong in the last 20 years? That's the only thing that scares me.

Yeah. The other thing to mention with him is he is a semi-longer-term play. I guess you could call him a mid-term play with Kirk Cousins here right now, and they just gave him $172 million guaranteed, which obligatory have to mention, I really wish I had had Kirk Cousins agent. But once he gets out there, I mean, Mendoza has the weapons around him. He's got Brock Purdy. He's got Brock Perry.

He's got Brock Bowers. He's got Ashen Genty. Like, I think they're going to continue to give him the tools to succeed here. And they've improved the offensive line. You've got Clint Kubiak. Like, there's a ton to be excited about. We just have to see it. We have to see him out there before we could possibly rank him any higher.

Yep, agreed. Let's jump to number 16. We're bouncing back and forth in age here. We're going to go to another unc. We're going to talk about Dak Prescott. One of our guys, we love talking about Dak Prescott on the show. Yeah, if he were just a couple years younger, we would both have him higher. It's just 32 years old.

That's like the one limitation of DAC. But, I mean, he is very good. He's been close to elite in every season basically sent every season he's been healthy at least, which is just as long as he's healthy. It's happened to be the odd number of seasons. Yeah. But as long as he stays healthy and as long as he's on this cowboy's offense, airing it out to C.D. Lamb and then George Pickens will see how long he's there.

But I just think he's going to continue to cook, at least in the short term. Yeah, we've called him Joe Burrow Light. And the whole joke about Dak Prescott just being good only in odd years. Like, it's caught so much steam, but we've discussed this a lot. Like, you can't knock a guy on getting injured. It's weird and coincidental that it happened to multiple, like, every other year in a row. But we think he's the second best pure pocket passer in the NFL right now for fantasy football. And he's a legitimate kingmaker when it comes to these guys surrounded by two top 15 receivers in the NFL.

Like he's a smash, smash play if you're not looking to like rebuild for the future in Dynasty. Yeah, a very nice win now, P.Cert, win in the relatively near future. Relative future. Yeah. Let's jump in. We cannot stop ping pong here at number 17. We're going to talk about the 24 year old second year QB out of Tennessee, Cam Ward. I'd like to start here because I'm fully bought in.

I was much higher than you. And this is coming from someone who got so frustrated with Cam Ward last year, so frustrated with Cam Ward's pressers, but I think he's going to take the next step. I think this team's committed to him. I love the addition of Brian Dayball of the coaching staff. I love them drafting Carnal Tate with the fourth overall pick, bringing in Wondale and free agency. And I think you use this exact verbiage a few episodes ago, but I think you said the Titans are making sure that if Ward fails, it's not on them. And I think that's put so perfectly that this team wants to do everything they possibly can to be like, we didn't fail Cam Ward if this goes wrong.

And that's exactly the type of quarterback. I want in that situation. Agreed. And I think it's over a 50% chance it does work out, which is why I haven't. I mean, lower than you, but still relatively high. Yeah, not crazy low. Yeah, it's just the fear is maybe it doesn't work out. Maybe it is on him and he just isn't that good.

He certainly showed flashes. He was the first overall pick for a reason, but we've seen first overall picks bus before. I think there's a chance he's not the starter by the end of his rookie contract. I think I'm the coward of this podcast of this show. I just get a little bit scared when there's low floor. But I will say the upsides there you mentioned, like he's 24 years old. They just spend top five draft capital on a receiver. They've signed another thousand yard receiver in free agency.

So all the pieces are there. Yeah, I agree. Let's jump to number 18, a second year quarterback that was able to rent a car as a rookie. And that's Tyler Shuck, 26 years old. Break down Tyler Shuck for me. That's deflamatory. Let me tell you this much. I would have eaten my literal shorts.

Like, I actually would have eaten my shorts if you told me a year ago that we'd have Tyler Shuck just one spot behind in our rankings. But here we are. And I think it makes sense given, I mean, we just talked about the situation Cam Wards and how about Shuck, who's in a very similar one. He's very similar. Also has a top eight pick at the wide receiver position he just got in this year's rookie draft.

he also has a thousand yard receiver in Chris Olave, and they actually already have some chemistry. Shaka also has sneaky wheels, deceptive speed. Yeah, why you say that? He can run the ball pretty well. He just needs to keep the job is the only thing, because unlike Cam Ward, he wasn't a high pick. So the leash is going to be shorter if he starts playing poorly.

He could be a backup in a year's time. But he also could be the starter for this team for the next seven, eight years. Yeah, I completely agree. I think the whole thing comes down to can you keep the job. And like, you hit the nail on the head. He was the QB8 from Weeks 13 through 17 last year. And this is a Saints offense that was very pass happy last year and will probably be very pass happy again. They had a seven and a half win total this year.

Like, I can see them playing plenty of catch up in these games. So I feel very optimistic about the upside of Tyler Shuck. But like you said, there's a fear that like he literally might not be starting in a year or two if things go wrong. Yeah. Absolutely. That's exactly it. On to number 19, a guy who's still somehow 24 after all of these older young quarterbacks. And that is C.J. Stroud. I'm going to let you start. You're the C.J. Stroud guy, whether you like it or not. Yeah, I don't know that I like it, but I do think he's being a little disrespected because of the playoffs and everything.

And I've talked about recently, like, I do actually think he's kind of a value right now because he is a good quarterback, even though people don't want to admit it. But he's just not a great quarterback. And I think he'll continue to be good. he'll continue to be fine. He's kind of like target brand Jordan Love for me. I love that. Like the cheaper version. And I like, I prefer Jordan Love if I'm pitching between the two all,

it's equal, I'll take Jordan Love. But CJ Stroud is significantly cheaper and I think probably pretty similar and how I view their long-term outlooks. So I kind of like CJ Stroud as a buy for that reason. I love that. He is very Jordan Love-coded.

The only thing I'll add in, a lot of off-season additions to the offensive line. They brought in Kaelin Rutledge through the draft in the first round, And then during free agency, they went out and paid Braden Smith and Wyatt Teller. So they're trying to make sure CJ Stroud doesn't get killed out there again this year. On to number 20, Baker Mayfield, 31-year-old quarterback out of Tampa Bay. The only thing I have here is like, I just want to remind people that Baker Mayfield is the MVP favorite through week six before he got banged up.

And like, I think he's still got juice. But the issue here is like he plays like a junkyard dog. And guys who play like that, you don't, he's like Camp Scataboo at quarterback. And so the longevity already at 31 and he's dealt with multiple injuries, it worries me, but he's got the weapons and tools around him that when he's out there and when he's healthy, like, he's going to cook. He's going to bake. He's going to bake. He would be higher if it weren't for the back half of last year. But I think there's a few things working against him. It's obviously the brutal end to last year. It's his age. He's 31 now. Lack of rushing upside.

I mean, he does take off and run occasionally, but he's not the most mobile guy in the world. So that does push him down. But with all that said, like, you like I do have hope for a bounce back. He has a whole offseason to get healthy. He has good weapons that we both like. And it wouldn't surprise me at all to see him bounce back and be like a low end quarterback one for the next couple years. No, me neither. Let's break into number 21, a 28 year old quarterback that I think both of us think has some sneaky quarterback one upside. And that's Kyler Murray. We've talked about Kyler Murray ad nauseum this offseason. If you want to click on basically any video we've posted, we've probably talked about him.

best weapons of his career, still got a low mobility, and KOC's making a living out of resurrecting careers. So I'm back in. Yeah, he's one of our favorites of this offseason. If he ends up getting a second contract in Minnesota, then he's too low. It's, there's a- Oh my God, yeah. Yeah, there's a chance he doesn't, which is why we have him this low. But he's way too low if he ends up getting that second contract in Kevin McConnell's offense with these elite receivers, the mobility that's coming back all these years later after the ACL tear. We've seen him be a great... Honestly, we've seen him be an elite dynasty asset in the past.

And I think he could get somewhere close. Maybe not close. But back in that direction, at least. Yeah, that's a great point. That this ranking is very much based on the floor of Kyler Murray not starting in the NFL in two years. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

On to another guy at 22 that we're not sure is going to be starting in the NFL in two years. and that is Malik Willis, the 27-year-old quarterback out of Miami. Break down Malik Willis for me. He's like the more extreme version of Kyler. Yeah. You may be getting yourself a mobile quarterback who's a franchise quarterback, who's going to be so good for you for so many years to come. Or he could be a guy that's riding the bench by week 11 in this upcoming season and never starts again.

Like we really don't know. But with where his price tag is, even, I mean, I'm a self-proclaiming. coward, I've said it many times on this episode, with how cheap he is and how low he is in the consensus rankings, it's totally worth a swing on that upside. Because sure, you might be disappointed, but like you could be getting a stud for the next half decade. Yeah, and we always say it. Like, we play to win in fantasy football. I'm willing to take a lot of tick on Malik Willis. He has not passed for over a thousand yards in the past three seasons, extremely small sample size, but if you want to look on the upside, he did have the highest EPA per play of any quarterback in

the NFL last year with the highest scramble rate and completed 85.7% of his passes. Again, in a really small sample size, but if you want to look for the upside with Malik Willis, like, it is there. But let's jump into number 23, the 24-year-old quarterback. I almost didn't see him down there, out of Carolina, and that's Bryce Young. Yeah, he's Kyler-coded. Yeah, why's that? I think you like Bryce sang a little bit more than me. Not that I necessarily disliked. It just feels like yucky, icky, nasty Bryce Young. Like I mentioned these... It doesn't feel good.

It doesn't feel good. We talked about these first overall pick quarterbacks don't always work out. It's not too late for him, but it doesn't feel good right now. And to be honest, I don't really believe in him from like a real life perspective, but I believe in his weapons so wholeheartedly. We've talked about them on the show. Like, I love Tedaroa McMillan. I'm a Cokehead, Jalen Coker, and they just

invested another day two pick and a wide receiver. So I think there's hope that his receiving core is good enough to keep Bryce Young productive enough that he can keep this job in Carolina, maybe get a second contract and be a quarterback two beyond just his rookie contract. I have nothing to add. That was basically all of my notes. The hope is that you've got a really solid mid to high end quarterback two for years to come. Let's get into number 24, a guy that I have down in my notes as potentially the most underrated of the underrated. fantasy football quarterbacks. And that is Jared Goff, the 31-year-old quarterback out of Detroit.

I want to tell you why I think he's the most underrated of the underrateds. When you talk about underrated fantasy QBs, do you feel like Jared Goff gets brought up like ever? No. I don't think about him. I don't think about you. Do you know the last four years he finished as the QB9, the QB6, the QB7, and the QB10? Yeah.

When you put it like that, I mean, we probably do happen too much. Four straight years is the QB1 and we have him ranked as our QB 24. Age obviously factors in. but it's better than Dak Prescott. Yeah, I mean, it totally is. I think the age is a big part of it as well as just the way he plays, which is like a statue. You have no rushing upside whatsoever.

But who cares if it's working anyways? Like, you just riled off where he's been finishing. So who cares if you're getting it in the air on the ground? So with all that said, I think he might be a little bit underrated. Just last year, he was second in both passing yards and touchdowns to very important metrics. Yeah. You just have to hope he can continue to play at this level.

We've seen him kind of tailor off at points in his career. The consistency isn't always there, although season long it has been from fantasy. So if you're in a win now mode, given where Jared Goff is being ranked, I don't have a problem at all with somebody making a move on him. I agree. Well, that is all 24 quarterbacks in our top 24.

Let us know down below who is too high, who is too low, and who didn't make the list that should have. We will catch you guys next episode with our top 24 running back rankings. Mello, do we miss anything? Just Trey Lance, but we'll talk about him another day. That's fair. We'll talk about him and guys who will come back to the NFL one day, top 24. All right, we'll catch you guys next episode.