Fantasy Football - Top 10 QB Rankings + Money Money Money! - Podcast for 8/4

and with all of his weapons back and healthy, there's a chance that the passing touchdowns go up. And I just like what I'm seeing from him. And I think he has potential for top five performances too. I certainly can't and wouldn't project a player like Lawrence to be near nine rushing touchdowns again. So that coming back down hurts where he is in my rankings. However,

You look at Liam Cohen, he got the rushing yardage and rushing attempts up with Baker Mayfield. That was a big deal. And it seemed like as the year went on, Trevor Lawrence finally figured out, dude, you are a very, very athletic quarterback that can scramble and help your offense if you use your legs. I think he's always underperformed in that. Always, but he's the same size as Josh Allen, minus 10 pounds. It's like Herbert. Yeah.

Herbert, come on. Yeah, yeah. Do something. Just run. But I think that the thing I like is as the season went on, I believe this was intentional. Liam Cohen got more out of his legs. The second half of the year, he was on pace for over 400 rushing yards, which if that's his baseline, with those weapons, you know, he's back at the 8-9 turn where he's been drafted.

30-yard rush or three out of five years. Like 400 yards is not out of the range of outcomes. I think that it's, Trevor is interesting to me of, so last year 19.9 points per game. Caleb was at 18.6. We saw Lawrence like really taking off, but Lawrence is being drafted behind Caleb Williams. The hardest part about.

Lawrence may be sticking with him through a tough early season schedule. He has to play Cleveland in week one, then Denver, then New England, then Sensi, congrats. But then Philly and Houston. Five of six weeks are against defenses I'm scared to have matchups against. There's a chance that he has a mid, like if I could play, let me put it this way. If I could play Caleb for the first six weeks, the Bears have the six toughest schedule, strength of schedule in the league. But their first six weeks are great. If I could play Caleb,

And then maybe trade them for Trevor. Maybe that's the direction I would go. They have opposites there. But I just think that you're looking at an offense that could be a top three offense. They could be the best offense in football. That's really possible, I think. So that makes them very interesting. Number seven. It's Jackson Dart coming in at seven. And this is a, we have a wide disparity in our individual rankings, which.

You know, frankly, doesn't match Mike's optimism and excitement for Jackson Dart from earlier. Earlier in the off season, I've just, I have gotten more sad. Look, Jason's got him at six. I got him at eight, which is a little bit higher than I had him before in this offseason. Mike at 12. His ADP is the quarterback nine in the eighth round. There's just a lot that can go wrong. That's the only argument for the dart situation. Having him at 12, that probably is too low for what we, what Dart put on the field.

of being a true fantasy difference maker. I mean, a couple real, real poopy pants performances from him. But a lot of, like, elite, you know, 20 plus points. If your quarterback scoring 20 or more points in a week, that's really, really helping you take down your opponent. But the, you know, I hate that Matt Nagy is there. He's the new offensive coordinator. It's my biggest problem with it, too. Yeah. It's just, and.

seemingly, you know, at least the way I'm looking at things, what Matt and Aggie wants out of his offense versus where Jackson Dart really excelled last year, they don't jive. So I just, I have concerns that Matt Nagy is going to ruin everything for us for Jackson Dart's fantasy upside. So I am all in on Jackson Dart for fantasy. I want to be. I, yeah, well, you have that choice. You actually can.

So if you really want to, just do it. No, they made the choice for me. They hired a budget magician to be their offensive coordinator. I get that. And if this was a pocket passer, I would be more worried. But it's really the legs of Jackson Dart. He was running like Lamar ran. He was on pace and his starts for almost 700 rushing yards. That is an outrageous amount. You can't be bad at fantasy. You know, you could be Justin Fields and finish fine.

as a bad quarterback, and he's not a bad quarterback. He did that all without Malik neighbors. You look at his scores last year as a starter, rookie without neighbors, 19.8. That's a great week. That's a great week. That's a great. That's a great. 15.6. That's a good week. Then it was 23, 28, 20, 27, 26. I'm not certain the recipe for Jackson Dart will be the same. We lost Cam Scataboo.

He had to scramble more, run more, take more chances. Got himself more hurt. Yeah. So I'm not sure that the hardball recipe for Jackson Dart, not that anybody can stop him from, you know, being himself. I think there's going to be an element of that. But injury is going to be a risk with Jackson Dart that needs to be baked into the situation. Certainly. He's also going to be one of the more like, I think more people will reach on Jackson Dart at quarterback than a lot of other guys. Yeah, he's.

Because he's fun. He's exciting. I just think getting Scataboo back, having some actual pass-catching weapons. It felt like Dart against the world. Maybe Dart and Wondale against the world last year. I think, I mean, obviously you want the offense to be good, and Scatabu is such a good pass catcher. I don't think that that is a negative thing for Dart. To me, I just look at a rookie who scored 20 fantasy points a game in his starts. Adds Malik neighbors.

And it goes into year two. Why is he being drafted in the eighth round is the question? Because there's a lot of ways it can go wrong. Okay. So you acknowledge those. Absolutely. This is a, but in the, you know, where he's being picked in the eighth, ninth round, like who cares? I'm just looking for upside. There's, he could go out there and be the, you know, the competing with Josh Allen for the most fantasy points. All right. We'll take a break. We'll count down the final six.

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Go to selectquote.com slash footballers today to get started. Number six. Number six is Drake May. I've got him at five, Jason at seven, Mike at six. He was the quarterback three last year. This is not tough mathematics, right? This is a player that performed at an extremely high level. MVP consideration passed, you know, one of the highest passing percentage teams in football completed. A mind-boggling 14% more?

of his passes than Caleb Williams. 72% completion percentage has shown us he can go for over 4,331. Oh, and you added AJ Brown. That's the Drake May bowl case, is that you did it. Yep. And now you add a true difference-making weapon that can go up and get the ball. I mean, the fact he did it with the receivers he had last year to me is, you know, impressive.

Yeah, there's not much to argue against him. The only thing that is on the downside is last year his schedule was very, very, very easy. This year, the schedule will be more difficult. So you're going to have to step it up when he played some of those great defenses in the playoffs. They won. But he did not have good performances, certainly not statistically for fantasy purposes. So we'll have to see. But I do believe that he has all the tools.

and can overcome bad matchups. Like if you believe he's elite, you know, we don't worry if Joe Burrow is in a bad matchup. You're not like, oh, no. Right. You know, sometimes you want him to be playing a great team because you want another team that can score on you. So Drake, Drake May is great. The two negatives are can he do it against much tougher competition this year? And he's not a free square anymore. You're giving up a fifth round pick to grab him. It's probably the highest ADP jump of anybody in our top 10.

He is. Year over year. He is the QB3, which is market-wise, that's higher than we have him ranked. That's right. So he may not be on our teams, but I think the performance will be there. Number five. Mike, talk to me about Joe E.B. Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow comes in at five. I got him at six, so I do have him behind Drake May, one spot. Jason at four, Mike at four, you guys both got him ahead of Drake May. He is the quarterback four off the board. I mean, we know that when Joe Burrow is healthy.

and has his two receivers, that it's a fairly unstoppable offense. And the schedule is amazing. Not only are they Warren Sharpe's third easiest strength of schedule for 2026, I believe, you can verify it, I believe they have the single easiest schedule for wide receivers in football. Oh, man. That's not fair. Jamar Chase. What could go wrong? Everything in Cincinnati. But.

Right now, and they have done work on the defensive side, both in the draft and through the trade for Dexter Lawrence. It will be a better defense. But you're going to need Joey B, right? You're going to need 4,500 yards from this guy. 100%. If Burroughs on the field, it's very much like Dak, except people respect Joe Burrow far more than Dak. When Burroughs on the field, he is, like, he's a great fantasy quarterback, year two.

19.6 points per game. Follow that up with nearly 22 points per game the next year. Then he gets hurt. 2024, back to 22 points per game. And then last year, of course, hurt again right at the beginning of the year. And the, you know, it's hard to get the signal of, you know, players' emotion and how they're doing. I don't know. The vibes out of Cincinnati feel different to me this year.

They feel very positive. They feel extremely positive. And it's like, we're not doing a contract bull crap. Where it's like for years of what are we doing with T. Higgins? And Chase and Burrow. Like are we going to pay, I mean, of course they're going to pay Chase, but it's like when will that happen? So none of those distractions are taking place this year. As far as we know, everybody is healthy at the moment. They have turned the team over to Joe Burrow. Chase Brown being the running back speaks even more.

to that because he's just like chase brown receiving skills he has receiving skills and he's just he's not a he's not a rico dowdell where it's like oh boy this is the week where they're going to give riko 25 carries and joe burrow i really hope he gets a touchdown it no the the offense is joe burrow with two elite weapons and joe burrow is an elite quarterback i'm i am all in perfect schedule he is mike's quarterback one in six point fantasy leagues if you want to know how much he believes number four

All right, it's Jalen Hertz. This is, look, I will get out of the way. This one, this one's hard. I will get out of the way here. He is at four. So there's your respect. So everybody that wants to jump on me for the next thing I say, your respect is in the ranking, okay? The hard part is that you can say every single, like I just said a bunch of stuff about Drake Man and then I said they added AJ Brown. I'm going to say a bunch of stuff about Jalen Hurts. It was his least productive fantasy season since his rookie year.

So basically since he was a starter, that was the least productive on a point per game basis. And now you lose A.J. Brown. That's part of the storyline here. I feel like, you know, look, this is a good franchise organization. They drafted Mackay Lemon. They have Dallas Goddard. Devante Smith's a stud. But statistically speaking, Jalen Hertz is two things this year. He's coming off his worst season. And he's at the biggest discount for fantasy. So.