Welcome again, fantasy soccer devoted. I just lately posted two columns with information and stats it is advisable to know on the operating again and large receiver positions. In the present day I’m hitting the NFL’s glamour place: Quarterback.
Yow will discover all my offseason and preseason fantasy content material, together with the largest burning fantasy questions for every workforce, right here.
Quarterback could also be a very powerful place within the 4 main sports activities, however that’s not the case for fantasy. True, it’s the very best scoring place, and final 12 months, 11 of the highest 16 scorers in fantasy had been QBs. However fantasy soccer drafting is all about provide and demand, and the way you strategy this place varies extensively, relying on what number of quarterbacks you’re allowed to begin.
In 1-QB leagues, you sometimes received’t see a QB taken till someday late within the second spherical, when Josh Allen will get chosen. There’s simply an excessive amount of high quality depth on the place. However in “Superflex” and different codecs that enable for 2 beginning QBs, the provision is reduce in half and so they fly off the board straight away. As increasingly more leagues undertake that strategy, the place turns into extra distinguished in fantasy. And in case you ask me, that’s the way it ought to be, given its significance in actual soccer.
The emergence of a number of dual-threat quarterbacks within the final decade has additionally modified how we view and assess the choices on the place. A QB who can rack up speeding factors is sort of like two gamers in a single.
For those who play in a conventional 1-QB league. must you wait on quarterback, or soar at one of many elite choices within the early rounds? I’ll sort out that later in the summertime. For now, listed here are 26 fascinating information that you just’ll wish to know in case you’ve acquired finest ball, dynasty startup, or different early drafts developing. For those who don’t, retailer them someplace at the back of your mind, for later.
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Josh Allen has completed because the QB1 or QB2 in fantasy for six straight seasons.
2. Allen has the NFL’s longest present consecutive QB begins streak, at 127 video games (139 together with playoffs).
3. Allen has 41 speeding TDs throughout the final three seasons. The one participant with extra in that span is Derrick Henry (44). Jalen Hurts is fourth, with 37.
4. Drake Maye led the NFL in yards per try (8.9), air yards per try (9.5), and completion share (72%) in 2025, a uncommon combo.
5. Jared Goff has the second longest present consecutive begins streak, at 68 common season video games.
6. Scoring techniques range, however in four-point TD cross scoring, Goff has completed because the QB7 for 3 consecutive seasons.
7. Goff led the NFL in producing yards after the catch (YAC) in every of the final two seasons.
8. After 4 straight seasons with a minimum of 600 speeding yards and double-digit speeding TDs, Jalen Hurts dropped to 421 speeding yards and eight speeding TDs in 2025 (he began 16 video games).
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9. Trevor Lawrence set profession highs in each passing TDs (29) and speeding TDs (9) and completed as the general QB4 final season, his first with Head Coach Liam Coen.
10. Baker Mayfield set profession highs in completions (407), completion share (71.4%), passing yards (4,500), passing TDs (41), and speeding TDs (3) and completed because the QB3 in 2024, his final season with Coen (as OC).
11. After making an attempt the sixth most passes within the NFL in his rookie season, Bo Nix led the NFL in cross makes an attempt final season, with 612.
12. Sam Darnold is 28-6 as a starter throughout the final two seasons. You learn that proper.
13. After going 6-8 as a starter final season, Patrick Mahomes is now 95-31 for his profession (common season) as a starter. His profitable share (.754%) is tied with Tom Brady for first all-time within the fashionable period.
14. Daniel Jones has averaged simply 11.7 begins per season for his injury-plagued profession.
15. Brock Purdy led the NFL in on-target throw share final season, at 82.2%.
16. The Prime-5 quarterbacks in speeding yards per recreation final season: Justin Fields (42.6), Jayden Daniels (39.7), Jaxson Dart (34.8), Kyler Murray (34.6), and Josh Allen (34.1).
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17. Lamar Jackson is absent from the record above, and solely averaged 26.8 speeding yards per recreation in 2025, a profession low. For his profession, he averages 56.2 speeding yards per recreation, which is #1 all-time for QBs.
18. It’s a really small pattern measurement, however in three spot begins throughout the final two seasons, Malik Willis averaged 58 speeding yards per recreation.
19. Joe Burrow has accomplished 68.5% of his passes for his NFL profession. That’s first all-time. Second all-time? Tua Tagovailoa, at 68%. Justin Herbert is eighth all-time, at 66.5%. Burrow, Tua, and Herbert had been all taken within the first six picks of the 2020 NFL draft.
20. Burrow’s variety of begins the previous three seasons: 10, 17, 8. Plan accordingly.
21. Dak Prescott’s variety of begins the previous six seasons: 5, 16, 12, 17, 8, 17. Plan accordingly.
22. Prescott led the NFL in completions in two of the previous three seasons (and completed as a Prime-5 fantasy QB in each of these seasons), and in every of his final three absolutely wholesome seasons, he threw for a minimum of 4,400 yards and 30 TDs.
23. TD passes thrown in rookie 12 months by No. 1 total decide QBs since 2016:
2018 – Baker Mayfield – 27
2019 – Kyler Murray – 20
2021 – Trevor Lawrence: 12
2024 – Caleb Williams: 20
2026 – Fernando Mendoza: ?
24. Aaron Rodgers (age 42) and Matthew Stafford (38) enter this season fourth and fifth all-time in passing yards, and fourth and seventh all-time in passing TDs.
25. Geno Smith is predicted to be the Jets’ opening day starter. Within the 9 seasons since he left the workforce after the 2016 season, the Jets have began 15 totally different quarterbacks.
26. Cleveland: “Hold my beer!” The Browns have began 14 totally different quarterbacks this decade (six seasons).
I might go on, however I feel that’s sufficient for in the present day. Preserve it right here for extra preseason fantasy content material.
