Rizzla presents his week seventeen rankings and takes a look back at the QB1’s from each quarter of the fantasy season.
With the fantasy football regular season now in the books we will spend this column taking a look at the QB1’s from each quarter of the season.
Patrick Mahomes had the best fantasy football season ever both in total points and in per game numbers with 399.7 on the season and an average of 26.6 points.
As per Jeff Ratcliffe, Aaron Rodgers’ 42.9 week sixteen fantasy points is the highest point total ever in the fantasy playoff weeks.
Patrick Mahomes 28.8
Matt Ryan 27.3
Cam Newton 25.1
Jared Goff 25.1
Ryan Fitzpatrick 25.1
Drew Brees 24.6
Kirk Cousins 23.9
Philip Rivers 22.6
Deshaun Watson 22.5
Ben Roethlisberger 21.7
Andy Dalton 20.5
Andrew Luck 20.1
Mitch Trubisky 26.9
Patrick Mahomes 25.4
Aaron Rodgers 24.3
Cam Newton 23.4
Andrew Luck 22.9
Carson Wentz 21.7
Russell Wilson 21.4
Tom Brady 21.2
Dak Prescott 20.5
Matt Ryan 20.4
Jameis Winston 19.9
Ben Roethlisberger 19.7
Philip Rivers 18.6
Jared Goff 28.5
Drew Brees 27.8
Patrick Mahomes 27.0
Ben Roethlisberger 25.5
Andrew Luck 22.6
Baker Mayfield 22.1
Russell Wilson 21.3
Matt Ryan 20.7
Cam Newton 20.7
Dak Prescott 19.7
Mitch Trubisky 19.6
Deshaun Watson 19.6
Patrick Mahomes 25.0
Deshaun Watson 23.3
Aaron Rodgers 23.0
Russell Wilson 20.3
Nick Foles 20.1
Ben Roethlisberger 19.8
Josh Allen 19.6
Carson Wentz 19.3
Sam Darnold 19.1
Matt Ryan 18.2
Lamar Jackson 17.1
Baker Mayfield 16.2
The first quarter of the season at the quarterback position was highlighted by the fantasy heroics of Patrick Mahomes and Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Mahomes went bonkers in the first few games of the season, much to the chagrin of many fantasy owners who had them on their benches for his first two contests. Mahomes, as we all know, has gone on to have a record setting season for a player starting his first full season.
While Patrick Mahomes continued his stellar play in the second quarter of the season, another second year player started making waves as Mitch Trubisky was the per game fantasy point leader at the position.
Andrew Luck’s resurgence after a disappointing first quarter film was another major storyline and his ability to be relatively consistent the rest of the way has him as the clubhouse favorite to win the comeback player of the year award.
While Patrick Mahomes continued his dominant run in the seasons third quarter, Jared Goff started turning heads as well. His 28.5 points was the second highest mark in any quarter through the first twelve weeks of the season.
If someone told you at the start of the season that four rookie QB’s would finish the last quarter of the season as QB1’s would you have believed them. There are a lot of interesting storylines including the fantasy emergences of the rookies as well as Nick Foles getting it done once again with Carson Wentz sidelined due to injury.
As always we will be updating our rankings up until kickoff so be sure to check back often for our latest updates and thoughts.
