NFL Fantasy Football Quarterbacks

Although the quarterback position is an important one as far as your fantasy football team is concerned, unless you draft Peyton Manning (and don’t draft Peyton in the first round), you will be better served waiting to draft your starting quarterback until the middle rounds of your fantasy football draft. With many of the NFL positions in fantasy football, there is a large drop-off in production after the top tier players. That is often not the case with quarterbacks in fantasy football leagues. While you might not get a 300-yard and 3 touchdowns quarterback every game, the top tier running backs and wide receivers that you draft in your fantasy football league can compensate for the lost production from week to week.

You will need a good quarterback to compete for your fantasy football league’s title, but you won’t necessarily need a great QB. Quarterbacks like Marc Bulger, John Kitna, or Phillip Rivers will likely be available in the 6^th – 9^th round of your fantasy football draft. You can markedly improve your team by drafting the top tier running backs and wide receivers in those first five rounds before you draft your quarterback.

Also, don’t wait too long before getting your backup quarterback. If you wait past the 14^th round to draft your backup fantasy quarterback, you might be staring directly at Joey Harrington, Charlie Frye or Brodie Croyle. While in most situations you will only need your backup quarterback to start one game per fantasy football season for you, remember the quarterback position is another one of the skilled positions where at least a couple of starters are likely to get hurt during the course of regular season. Should your starting quarterback goes down for an extended period of time, it would behoove you to have an adequate backup. There should be several middle tier quarterbacks left in your fantasy football draft in the early stages of the late rounds. Look to get Eli Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Jake Delhomme, Brett Farve, or even Dante Culpepper as your backup quarterback between rounds 11 and 14.

Quarterback Rankings

Rankings	Quarterbacks	Team	Bye Week
1	Peyton Manning	IND	6
2	Carson Palmer	CIN	5
3	Drew Brees	NO	4
4	Tom Brady	NE	10
5	Marc Bulger	STL	9
6	Donovan McNabb	PHI	5
7	Jon Kitna	DET	6
8	Tony Romo	DAL	8
9	Philip Rivers	SD	7
10	Matt Hasselbeck	SEA	8
11	Vince Young	TEN	4
12	Jay Cutler	DEN	6
13	J.P. Losman	BUF	6
14	Eli Manning	NYG	9
15	Matt Leinart	ARI	8
16	Ben Roethlisberger	PIT	6
17	Jake Delhomme	CAR	7
18	Rex Grossman	CHI	9
19	Brett Favre	GB	7
20	Chad Pennington	NYJ	10
21	Matt Schaub	HOU	10
22	Steve McNair	BAL	8
23	Jeff Garcia	TB	10
24	Alex Smith	SF	6
25	Jason Campbell	WAS	4
26	Dante Culpepper	OAK	5
27	Trent Green	MIA	9
28	David Garrard	JAC	4
29	Tarvaris Jackson	MIN	5
30	Joey Harrington	ATL	8
31	Brodie Croyle	KC	8
32	Charlie Frye	CLE	7

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