If he’d still been the starter in Cleveland, it would have been a story last week. Now that Joe Flacco has been traded to the Bengals (and immediately installed as the starting quarterback), it’s a nugget worth highlighting in advance of Thursday night’s game. Flacco vs. Aaron Rodgers. A pair of quarterbacks on the wrong side of 40. That has …
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Outside of their game against MVP candidate Baker Mayfield, the Seahawks have proven to be a tough matchup for quarterbacks. Putting Mayfield aside, they have held every other QB under 20 fantasy points, and Trevor Lawrence is the only other signal-caller to top 17 fantasy points against them. If you take away the Mayfield game, Seattle has given up eight …
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Everyone knows I am a huge Justin Fields fan. I have recommended starting him in every week he has played this season, and in three of those, he topped 25 fantasy points. Only he and Lamar Jackson have three games with 25-plus fantasy points in 2025. It is not always pretty, but it is effective for fantasy purposes, even if …
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The college football season is a month old, and from an NFL Draft perspective, the biggest story has been what’s happening at the quarterback position. Or rather, what isn’t happening. Several quarterbacks highly rated by scouts and analysts over the summer have stumbled out of the blocks — Texas junior Arch Manning, Clemson senior Cade Klubnik and, to a degree, …
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Let the fun begin! Last season, I started pounding the table for Drake Maye before the consensus because his tools were too good to ignore. I feel similarly about Dart this year. In his first start, the rookie didn’t light up the stat sheet, but his 111 passing yards, 54 rushing yards and two TDs (one pass, one rush) still …
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Of all QBs who have attempted a minimum of 10 passes this season, Rodgers has the lowest air yards-per-attempt mark (5.4). He has the fourth-lowest success rate, per Next Gen Stats, ahead of only Cam Ward, Joe Flacco and J.J. McCarthy. He is running hot, touchdown-wise, carrying a TD rate of 8.1 percent, which would be his best mark since …
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Quarterback remains, by far, the most important position on any NFL team. On Sunday, five of the 28 teams that will be playing won’t have their best quarterback under center to start the game. Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow is out indefinitely, and reportedly at least three months, after undergoing toe surgery. If the Bengals aren’t in the playoff hunt by …
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I couldn’t write about Justin Fields, as he’s been ruled out of Week 3 due to a concussion. I considered Justin Herbert and Bo Nix, but given the deteriorating state of the quarterback position with all of these injuries, those two are likely already in play for most. Just know they are “starts” for me. So is Maye, if you …
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This one is a little spicy, but I didn’t like what I saw from the Lions on offense in Week 1. They averaged 3.8 yards per play, which was lower than in any game during the Ben Johnson era. Detroit’s offensive line had issues, which undoubtedly made Goff more uncomfortable than usual. The Bears are a tough matchup, as they …
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