Welcome back, fantasy football faithful. I recently posted two columns with facts and stats you need to know at the running back and wide receiver positions. Today I’m hitting the NFL’s glamour position: Quarterback.
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Quarterback may be the most important position in the four major sports, but that’s not the case for fantasy. True, it’s the highest scoring position, and last
year, 11 of the top 16 scorers in fantasy were QBs. But fantasy football drafting is all about supply and demand, and how you approach this position varies widely, depending on how many quarterbacks you’re allowed to start.
In 1-QB leagues, you typically won’t see a QB taken until sometime late in the second round, when Josh Allen gets selected. There’s just too much quality depth at the position. But in “Superflex” and other formats that allow for two starting QBs, the supply is cut in half and they fly off the board right away. As more and more leagues adopt that approach, the position becomes more prominent in fantasy. And if you ask me, that’s how it should be, given its importance in real football.
The emergence of multiple dual-threat quarterbacks in the last decade has also changed how we view and assess the options at the position. A QB who can rack up rushing points is almost like two players in one.
If you play in a traditional 1-QB league. should you wait on quarterback, or jump at one of the elite options in the early rounds? I’ll tackle that later in the summer. For now, here are 26 interesting facts that you’ll want to know if you’ve got best ball, dynasty startup, or other early drafts coming up. If you don’t, store them somewhere in the back of your brain, for later.
- Josh Allen has finished as the QB1 or QB2 in fantasy for six straight seasons.
2. Allen has the NFL’s longest current consecutive QB starts streak, at 127 games (139 including playoffs).
3. Allen has 41 rushing TDs across the last three seasons. The only player with more in that span is Derrick Henry (44). Jalen Hurts is fourth, with 37.
4. Drake Maye led the NFL in yards per attempt (8.9), air yards per attempt (9.5), and completion percentage (72%) in 2025, a rare combo.
5. Jared Goff has the second longest current consecutive starts streak, at 68 regular season games.
6. Scoring systems vary, but in four-point TD pass scoring, Goff has finished as the QB7 for three consecutive seasons.
7. Goff led the NFL in generating yards after the catch (YAC) in each of the last two seasons.
8. After four straight seasons with at least 600 rushing yards and double-digit rushing TDs, Jalen Hurts dropped to 421 rushing yards and eight rushing TDs in 2025 (he started 16 games).
9. Trevor Lawrence set career highs in both passing TDs (29) and rushing TDs (9) and finished as the overall QB4 last season, his first with Head Coach Liam Coen.
10. Baker Mayfield set career highs in completions (407), completion percentage (71.4%), passing yards (4,500), passing TDs (41), and rushing TDs (3) and finished as the QB3 in 2024, his last season with Coen (as OC).
11. After attempting the sixth most passes in the NFL in his rookie season, Bo Nix led the NFL in pass attempts last season, with 612.
12. Sam Darnold is 28-6 as a starter across the last two seasons. You read that right.
13. After going 6-8 as a starter last season, Patrick Mahomes is now 95-31 for his career (regular season) as a starter. His winning percentage (.754%) is tied with Tom Brady for first all-time in the modern era.
14. Daniel Jones has averaged just 11.7 starts per season for his injury-plagued career.
15. Brock Purdy led the NFL in on-target throw percentage last season, at 82.2%.
16. The Top-5 quarterbacks in rushing yards per game last season: Justin Fields (42.6), Jayden Daniels (39.7), Jaxson Dart (34.8), Kyler Murray (34.6), and Josh Allen (34.1).
17. Lamar Jackson is absent from the list above, and only averaged 26.8 rushing yards per game in 2025, a career low. For his career, he averages 56.2 rushing yards per game, which is #1 all-time for QBs.
18. It’s a very small sample size, but in three spot starts across the last two seasons, Malik Willis averaged 58 rushing yards per game.
19. Joe Burrow has completed 68.5% of his passes for his NFL career. That’s first all-time. Second all-time? Tua Tagovailoa, at 68%. Justin Herbert is eighth all-time, at 66.5%. Burrow, Tua, and Herbert were all taken in the first six picks of the 2020 NFL draft.
20. Burrow’s number of starts the past three seasons: 10, 17, 8. Plan accordingly.
21. Dak Prescott’s number of starts the past six seasons: 5, 16, 12, 17, 8, 17. Plan accordingly.
22. Prescott led the NFL in completions in two of the past three seasons (and finished as a Top-5 fantasy QB in both of those seasons), and in each of his last three fully healthy seasons, he threw for at least 4,400 yards and 30 TDs.
23. TD passes thrown in rookie year by No. 1 overall pick QBs since 2016:
2016 – Jared Goff – 5
2018 – Baker Mayfield – 27
2019 – Kyler Murray – 20
2020 – Joe Burrow: 13
2021 – Trevor Lawrence: 12
2023 – Bryce Young: 11
2024 – Caleb Williams: 20
2025 – Cam Ward: 15
2026 – Fernando Mendoza: ?
24. Aaron Rodgers (age 42) and Matthew Stafford (38) enter this season fourth and fifth all-time in passing yards, and fourth and seventh all-time in passing TDs.
25. Geno Smith is expected to be the Jets’ opening day starter. In the nine seasons since he left the team after the 2016 season, the Jets have started 15 different quarterbacks.
26. Cleveland: “Hold my beer!” The Browns have started 14 different quarterbacks this decade (six seasons).
I could go on, but I think that’s enough for today. Keep it here for more preseason fantasy content.
