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Early QB Rankings 2024: Patrick Mahomes Tops the List
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5/26/2024
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So let's go to the early quarterback rankings and at the top, there are no surprises, but
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Joe, I'll let you take it from here.
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We go inside the writer's room of the fantasy black book.
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Let's go.
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Well, I do all the quarterback profiles every year because my whole thing is if you understand
00:16
the quarterback play, then you understand the offense.
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If you understand the offense, then you know how to invest in fantasy football.
00:21
So to me, it's the most important of all the profiles that you're going to read because
00:25
if the quarterback can't execute, then guess what?
00:27
Everything around him crumbles.
00:29
Let's take a look at some of the things that have happened in the NFL in the last few years
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when it comes to those players we had expectations for, but unfortunately, bad quarterback play
00:36
put those expectations to bed.
00:37
Now there is a surprise at the top because I have Patrick Mahomes as my QB one going
00:42
into this year.
00:43
People say, well, what about Josh Allen and Jalen Hurts?
00:44
All those rushing touchdowns.
00:45
Do we really expect them to set a record two years in a row in rushing touchdowns?
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I don't.
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Jason Kelsey's gone under center, right?
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He is the guy that made that brotherly shove work.
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How many of those rushing touchdowns came on that play?
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Now maybe, maybe they'll be able to make it work with somebody else, but Jason Kelsey
01:00
was the guy who really made that play work at the end of the day.
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If you know anything about football, then Josh Allen, again, great season for Josh Allen
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and other fantastic fancy performance.
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So two guys who get a lot of fantasy points with their legs, they might outscore Patrick
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Mahomes.
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However, you're taking away Stefan Diggs, who Stefan Diggs was not the same guy.
01:18
What do you have the season?
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And there was one guy who was fading.
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Stefan Diggs going into last year.
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It was this guy, but having him in the offense is still important, even theoretically.
01:25
And now you have Keon Coleman, interesting player, Khalil Shakir, interesting player,
01:29
Dalton Kincaid, James Cook, but there's no question surrounding that.
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And it's funny because Patrick Mahomes, let's see here, let's go back in the wayback machine
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all the way to 2022, where he threw for 5,200 yards and 41 touchdowns.
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And let's, you know what, let's go back a year further.
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Let's go back to 2021, where he threw a 4,800 yards and 4,700 yards.
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And you're seeing some of these projections right now for Patrick Mahomes at 4,200.
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If you go look and wager on him right now, it's around the 4,200 range.
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Are we kidding ourselves?
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Last year, he had zero wide receiver play, zero, and I know Tyreek Hill isn't there anymore.
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Travis Kelsey was hurt last year.
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Hopefully you get Rushie Rice at some point, we'll see how many games he gets suspended,
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but you brought in Hollywood Brown.
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You drafted Xavier Worthy.
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You have some better pieces now around him, plus hopefully a healthy Travis Kelsey.
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So Patrick Mahomes, it's ridiculous to think that he can't be the QB one or isn't the safest
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of all these investments, considering what's around him right now.
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So we can split hairs about who's going to be the guy at the top.
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But if you're asking me in Super Flex Leagues especially, who's the best investment this
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year, I still think it's Patrick Mahomes.
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I understand last year was a down year and they still won the Super Bowl.
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Now that doesn't mean too much for you when you're talking about your fantasy league,
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but it does mean that Patrick Mahomes isn't done.
02:43
Patrick Mahomes is still in his prime and this team is running for the opportunity to
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win three in a row, something nobody's done.
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After that, you got Lamar Jackson at four.
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You've got Anthony Richardson at five.
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That's a very aggressive ranking for Anthony Richardson.
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But when you consider that the two games he actually played in full or two of the three,
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he finishes QB two and QB four those weeks.
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I think we got to be aggressive on Anthony Richardson.
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And in single quarterback leagues, I think it's better to be aggressive on him because
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you can back it up easily later with a Kirk Cousins or Jared Goff, a Baker Mayfield in
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a 14 team league, whatever it might be.
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in case he isn't great, you'll figure it out.
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But the upside for Richardson is the guy who's going to be top five on this board.
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And unfortunately you have to pay that price.
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You're going to see Joe Burrow ranked ahead of Anthony Richardson, CJ Stroud, even Dak
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Prescott.
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Some guys like that might be ranked ahead of him.
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I have it.
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Richardson, Burrow, Prescott, CJ Stroud at eight, Jordan Love at nine, who was tremendous
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last year, especially that second half of the season, Kyler Murray at 10, who again
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has a lot of rushing equity, great late investment.
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If you want to wait on quarterbacks this year, it's perfectly fine.
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Brock Purdy at 11, Kirk Cousins at 12, but that's my top 12 and you're missing a few
03:54
big names from it, Matt.
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But I do believe that that is the best 12 that I could throw out there in fantasy in
04:02
terms of the weapons they have around them, in terms of the performances we've seen from
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them and the investability factor at the position.
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