Fantasy Football Quarterback Rankings 2026 — Standard

Josh Allen stands alone at QB1 with a projected 314.5 points and a +60.6 Draft Value — and the cliff below him is the biggest on this page, a 40.2-point gap to Tier 2. No other quarterback projects within 40 points of his surplus. If you leave this tier empty, you are conceding an advantage that cannot be recovered anywhere else on the rankings.

Drake Maye and Lamar Jackson project at 274.3 and 274.1 points respectively, separated by just 0.2 Draft Value points — effectively interchangeable in value. The 11.3-point gap to Tier 3 is real but not catastrophic; missing this tier costs you a meaningful edge, though the damage is far smaller than skipping Tier 1.

Dak Prescott (QB4, 262.8 pts) and Jalen Hurts (QB5, 260.9 pts) sit 1.9 Draft Value points apart — close enough that roster construction around them matters more than which one you land. A 7.0-point gap separates this tier from the replacement-level cluster below, so drafting here still nets a positive surplus; waiting past this tier means accepting a QB at or below replacement level.

Thirty-one quarterbacks occupy Tier 4, spanning from Matthew Stafford at a flat +0.0 Draft Value all the way down to Joe Flacco at -183.3 — an internal spread of 183.3 points that makes this tier a spectrum, not a band. The top of this group, QB6 through roughly QB10, still projects competitively in the 246–254-point range, but every player here is at or below replacement level by definition. In standard scoring, where QBs score fewer points than in other formats, the gap between Tiers 1–3 and this pool is the central drafting decision at the position — the right time to dip in is late, and the right expectation is replacement-level production.