The Rotoworld Top 200 Rankings are live. They are an average of rankings from myself, Denny Carter, and Patrick Daugherty, which are updated throughout training camp. Now that we have a baseline for every player, we can also break each position into tiers. By using the distance between players in our ranks and current ADP, I’ve broken each position into subgroups of players we at Rotoworld see as similar.
In fantasy football, we always want to be buying at the lowest price. If you want low-end QB1 production, the best way to get it is at QB2 prices. Finding those discrepancies is what I hope tiering players accomplishes. The tiers only go out to our top-150, because the remaining players are largely in the same tier. Starting with quarterback, this is how we think you should be attacking drafts this summer.
▶ Tier 1
Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson
This tier is as simple as it gets. Six of the past seven QB1 overall players can be found in this tier. Allen finished 2025 as the QB1 while averaging a relatively low 21.4 PPG. That was both his worst score in six years and the lowest average for a QB1 overall since 2009. He outscored Drake Maye by less than one point per game. Searching for the highest-scoring quarterback makes sense, but paying a premium to beat Maye by a razor-thin margin is untenable. If you’re hunting for fantasy’s top passer, our rankers prefer Jackson. He had a down year and comes in behind Allen, but not nearly as far behind as ADP has it. Jackson has blown the rest of the QB competition out of the water in multiple seasons and is the only quarterback outside of Allen with a strong shot at doing that in 2026.
▶ Tier 2
Jayden Daniels, Joe Burrow, Drake Maye, Jalen Hurts
This tier is where we see our biggest value in drafts this summer. Daniels averaged 20.9 PPG in his rookie season and was a force in the playoffs, posting 24.1 PPG in his three postseason starts. He missed much of his sophomore season with knee, hamstring, and elbow injuries. To make a long story short, none of us at Rotoworld are particularly scared off by these injuries. Daniels is one of a very small number of players who could out-score Josh Allen and he goes more than three rounds after him. Hurts is the diet version of Daniels. His odds of outscoring Allen aren’t nearly as high, but he had topped 20 points per game in each of his seasons as a starter until last year. Tier 2 brings much more risk than Tier 1, but the ceiling outcomes look similar.
▶ Tier 3
Dak Prescott, Justin Herbert, Patrick Mahomes, Caleb Williams
If you only want to roster one quarterback, this is the last call at the position. While we’re unlikely to see a QB1 overall season from any member of this group, a top-five campaign is on the table. Every member of this cohort has hit that mark at least once already. Herbert and Mahomes both got new offensive coordinators in the offseason. Williams is going into his second season in Ben Johnson’s offense, and the team is committed to giving us more Colston Loveland and Luther Burden. Prescott is the only one of these quarterbacks not undergoing serious change in the offseason, making him the most stable while also limiting his ceiling.
▶ Tier 4
Jaxson Dart, Jordan Love, Brock Purdy, Matthew Stafford, Trevor Lawrence
As the youngest and most mobile member of this group, it makes sense to have Dart at the top of this tier, though Pat, Denny, and I are generally lower on him than redraft ADP. The same is true of Lawrence and Stafford. We are collectively higher than redraft ADP on Purdy and Love, though that depends on which site you’re drafting on. This shouldn’t come as a surprise given that those players finished second and third in EPA per play last year. We don’t have a strong stance on whether you want to draft players from this tier as a whole. It’s much more about pricing when you get into this range. Buying last year’s efficiency stats is risky when you’re paying an eighth-round pick. It’s much more palatable in the 12th.
▶ Tier 5
Jared Goff, Kyler Murray, Bo Nix, Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, Tyler Shough
This is tried-and-true QB2 territory. Not all of these quarterbacks will finish outside the top 12, but drafters shouldn’t expect top-end fantasy production when they pick from this range. If you wind up getting your first quarterback in Tier 4, it might not be a bad idea to grab another from Tier 5. There are a few players from each tier with notably easy and hard playoff schedules that pair well together. San Francisco and Tampa Bay face two of the hardest Week 14-17 schedules, based on opponent EPA per play on defense. The Vikings get by far the easiest fantasy postseason and Daniel Jones’s Colts sit at fifth in SOS. None of those teams share a bye week, meaning it’s easy to pair them off and have a mix of regular and postseason points.
