Top 20 Fantasy Quarterbacks (2025 Draft)

The signal callers are up and there's a couple of surprises in the list.  A lot of 2nd year QB's move up.  There's great value in later rounds if you wait on QB and we'll talk about it.

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Man, welcome back everybody. It's Friday night football, preseason, week three, and there are starting offenses out on the field. What the chicken jockey is happening right now? I don't know. It's ding your host, and we're going to talk about the top 20 quarterbacks tonight, but before we jump into that, let's talk about the big news. Brian Robinson gets traded to San Francisco for a sixth round draft pick. And you thought CMC was healthy. I'm telling you, you got to listen to me. Twitter was a fire. I'm going back and forth with people. They're like, Oh, you don't know what you're talking about, dude. CMC is hurt, man. He is hurt. He's not going to play a full season, half season at best. You pick him in the first round, you are going down. I'm just, I'm just letting you know, good luck. Let's get to it. Top 20 quarterbacks, some names are going to look familiar in the same places as last year. Some are going to be different. I'm going to throw a few surprises out there. So get ready at number one. I have Lamar Jackson, easy pick here, 559, points last year. I don't think he gets as many points as he did last year. This foot injury thing. Yeah, it's a big to do about nothing. But in the big picture, he's going to be number one overall. His running and passing ability, the weapons he has around him and Henry helps him move the ball give him the best opportunities. And number two, I have Joe burrow. He was number two last year. I will say, though, I think that Joe burrow could be number one this year. I see burrow going over 5000 yards passing. That would be an epic year for him. Now, his touchdown intercept ratio from last year, 43 nine, that was just amazing. I'm not sure he can beat that. A little bit more passing yards, maybe an extra touchdown here or there, and he could overtake Lamar Jackson at number three. I have Josh Allen now. Josh Allen, he played well last year. He was in the MVP race. I mean, it was all about him. He went in, he ran for every touchdown he could possibly get. He stole every single touchdown from all of his wide receivers. He did give a bunch to cook, which was really surprising. But you know, then they didn't want to pay cook. Sidebar there, but the big picture is, Josh Allen was all about himself last year. He's going to be all about himself this year. What did they do in the draft? They went six straight rounds of defensive players. Okay? So they didn't really improve the offense at all. So what can Josh Allen do this year? About the same as he did last year? I don't really see him getting any numbers better. He might actually fall back a little bit. I know I have him at three, but he could find himself at four or five, depending on how the team does this year. So look out. And number four, I have Daniels now. We watch another preseason, he looks really good. He's got a young tailback, though, tailback I still have college football, but he does have young running back. We don't know what McLaurin issue is and if he's going to play. And that's really the biggest thing. I'm going to put an asterisk next to Daniels here. If McLaurin doesn't come back, Daniels falls outside of the top 10. He really doesn't have anyone to throw to debo Samuel is not the guy. He used to be great player, but he is not just be honest with yourself when it comes to that. But if McLaurin comes back, he's got a great shot at being the number four overall and number five I have Jared Goff, and I see this as a ceiling for golf. I don't think he does any better than he did last year, which was a number five finish. Great season. 37 touchdowns, 12 interceptions, 4600 yards. Epic season for him. I just don't see how he gets it any more than that. Gives incredible player. He's going to rush for a lot of touchdowns. Montgomery still there. He's still got the same weapons, so I don't really see him over playing what he did last year. And their schedule is a bit tougher. Take it with a grain of salt. I think you know Jared Goff, great player. He's going to finish number five for number five, probably overall, but it's possible he could drop down a few from here. But really good draft capital here, because for golf, you're getting him in the seventh round, and he's going to finish in the top five and number six. I have Baker Mayfield now. Baker surprised everyone with a number three finish last year. That wasn't really a surprise to me. He's got great weapons. This year, he has Evans and igbuka, unfortunately, Godwin, I don't think he's gonna play. If you're drafting him, you might as well give your money to your friends. And then they lost McMillan to a neck injury. We don't know when that kid's gonna come back. So at this point, he's lost a lot of weapons. Bucky Irving is there. He's great, but the team's a little bit banged up, so I don't think that Baker Mayfield can match what he did last year, just a superb season, with 41 touchdowns and 16 interceptions, 4500 passing. Those are great numbers. I just think that was a ceiling for him. I see him falling. So that's why I have him at six and number seven, I have Bo Nix. Now it's not a big surprise, because Bo was eight last year, so moving up a spot. Yes, I think his total number of points increase definitely. So he's looking at last year he didn't even hit 30 touchdowns. So I'm thinking 35 touchdowns, 4200 yards. Maybe he cleans up the interceptions. That's a really solid seven. And he might push six or five. He might even be golf, depending on how successful he is. Is, and that really the key there is Sutton. And number eight, I have Justin Abraham. So I find Justin neighbor coming back into the top 10 from last year. He had a rough year. I mean, rough year. Incredibly efficient. Just no mistakes, 23 touchdowns, three interceptions. What a great year, but only 3800 yards passing. Now he gets Keenan Allen. He's got lad McConkie. I mean, between the two of those guys, great hands. I see a high percentage of passes, little bit more touchdowns. Let's hope that Amara Hampton comes in and gives them kind of that boost that Naji isn't doing while he's walking laps at practice. Terrible. And number nine have Jalen Hurts. Tush Bush is back. He's still going to be in the top 10. That's where he gets all his touchdowns. I mean, 18 touchdowns last year, five interceptions in the passing game. But he runs the ball very well, lot of touch push touchdowns. That's not going away. Philly is still going to be dominant on the offensive side of the ball, so I see him still finishing in the top 10, and number 10, I have Geno Smith. This is a little bit of a shocker. He's going to jump about five spots to get himself to the 10th spot. Here he moves to a better situation, in my opinion. Brock Bowers, much better athlete than he had in Seattle. Jacoby Myers, outstanding wide receiver. And now he's got janty, you know, a really good running back behind him, and his schedule is pretty good. I see this sets up really well for Geno I think he's gonna go and push about 30 touchdowns, probably 4500 yards, and that's gonna put him in a solid 10 and number 11. I have my homies now. My homes look good tonight in preseason. Yeah, it's pre season. It was against the bears. Hey, where did that? 38 no bears team go, Yeah. Everybody was like, Oh, this is our year. Yeah, no, it's it's not, I digress, mahomes, he even hit a deep ball. I was really proud of him. I don't think he can hit the deep ball anymore. Rice was out there. He's probably not going to be on the team worthy. He missed him standard, and then he hit taekwon Thornton. Is that dude you're going to play? I don't know. Kelsey dropped the ball. So I think that is an absolute precursor to what the season is going to be. Plus, they have to go overseas to play the first game. What a joke. This is the NFL. This isn't like the South American Football League, for crying out loud. Sidebar over, sorry, mahomes, at number 11, that's the best he's going to do, especially with all the injuries the guys he's losing to possible suspension and otherwise, number 12, I had Dak Prescott. I think Dak has a bounce back here. This is a good opportunity for him. If he can stay healthy, he could throw to CG lamb, he's got Pickens. Ferguson is back, and, you know, Ferguson is going to get touchdowns. The running backs are kind of a train wreck. I don't know if Javante is going to take the starting I think he is. But who knows what's going to happen there. So they're going to lean on Dak a lot, and I think he can take that pressure as long as he doesn't get hurt. And number 13, it pains me to say it, but I'm going to say sam darnold. Why? Because Sam Donald's in another good situation. He's got JSN at one on one side. He's got cup on the other side, he's got two great running backs, decent defense, you know, subpar O line and a good schedule. So I think this sets up well for him. He's got two really good Alpha receivers. Yeah, one of them's, you know, you know, cup in the in the end of his prime, but still amazing receivers. So I don't know how he can go wrong. I mean, if he was sitting in Minneapolis right now, he would have Jefferson banged up, Addison suspended, nailer hurt, and now they're hoping to get feeling he's got to be feeling good about himself right now, honestly, that he's outside of Minnesota and number 14, this is going to be a weird one. I'm going with panics from Atlanta. I think that he turns my number five wide receiver overall, Drake London into a superstar. Now, everyone's like, well, he's already superstar. Ding, yeah, I got that. But I think Drake London pushes double digit touchdowns, maybe 17, 1800 yards. I know that sounds crazy, but with Mooney out, you got Raymond MacLeod, and then you got Bijon Robinson, well, he's got to be able to throw to somebody, and London can be dominant if he can stay healthy. So let's figure it out. We don't. We haven't seen a full season from pennix yet, right? So pennix, he gives 1500 to Drake, London. He gives 800 maybe even 1000 to Bajan. There's 2500 of your passing yards, right there? Another 808 50 to Raymond McLeod, which is about what you did last year. And then maybe another five, 600 to another couple of running backs. I mean, pretty soon he's pushing high 3000 yards, like 3800 3900 Vegas has him tapped for 3600 now it really comes down to the touchdowns. Well, he's surrounded by a bunch of guys who can get in the end zone. So let's give him a fair shake and say, you know, 25 to 27 touchdowns, maybe 3800 yards. He's gonna finish 14, all right, and number 15 I have Drake. May I like Drake? May I was thinking he was gonna push top 12 status, but I just don't see it. This year, I know Diggs is great. Diggs makes him a much better player. He's gonna push for almost 4000 yards this this year he's gonna push for over. 30 touchdowns. Hunter Henry's there. He's got a young Henderson at running back that they hopefully will play. Douglas maybe has a better year. I think he's got the tools, you know, if this can stay healthy, this could be Drake mais here, and he could pop into the top 15 and number 16. I have CJ Stroud. I want to give him more credit. I want to push him more, but he's got Nico Collins on one side, awesome alpha, but on the other side, he's got Christian Kirk, who just gets hurt all the time. His running back situation is a train wreck. He's got Chubb, who basically doesn't have a knee anymore. Mix in, who, I don't think what's what's happening with his foot Pierce, who just could never, ever score touchdowns. So they need to be able to move the ball. Their defense is kind of atrocious. It's kind of middle of the road. Every once in a while, you know, they get a turnover, but he's going to have to make it happen, as long as Nico and Christian Kirk can stay healthy. He can, he can be successful, but I just don't see him finishing past the 16. At 17, I have Matthew Stafford. I truly think that his back problems are catching up to him. Now he's got two great receivers, puka and Adams, he should roll. I mean, with Kyron Williams behind him, they're going to be able to move the ball. I just not sure he's going to play a whole season. I think, I think this, these issues are going to really start to bother him, and he's going to probably play like now, 12 to 14 games. That is a total guess. I don't know anything about injuries from that perspective. I mean, I know everything about back injuries, but for him, they're really keeping it close to the chest. Who knows how bad it is? But he's back at practice, so let's give him the benefit of the doubt. If he comes back, I think he easily plays to a 17 level. He might even push higher than that at 18, I have Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray, I think his accuracy is gone. He can't seem to hit Harrison. He peppers McBride because McBride is the underneath guy, and he loves throwing those easy passes to him. So that's why McBride gets 150 targets. That should be reversed. Harrison should have 150 targets. MCBRIDE should have 100 that tells you what his accuracy and what his confidence in his arm is like, and that's why I have him here at 18. And I struggle with this. I almost wanted to drop him out of 20, but he's surrounded by really good players, and that gives him the ability to finish in the top 20. And Number 19, I have Aaron Rodgers. No one knows exactly what's going to happen with Aaron Rodgers in Pittsburgh, but I see Pittsburgh as a defense first running first kind of team. Yes, they brought in DK and they brought in Rogers, so they have a vertical passing game, but DK really hasn't scored that many touchdowns as in his entire career, and when Rogers had Adams in the Jets, they really didn't seem to click until like late in the season. I think that's going to happen again. He's never played with DK before, so it's going to there's going to be a struggle early on, and I think as the season continues, he'll get back into form. If he can stay healthy, the defense is going to make turnovers. They're going to give him opportunities to score. But I think I see a lot of low scoring games in his future, like he wasn't with the Jets. I don't see him throwing as much, and that's why he barely makes the top 20. And then in number 20, I have Brock Purdy. This is a huge fall for him. I mean, you know, if you told someone at the beginning of the season that Brock Purdy's gonna finish number 20, they probably would have laughed in your face, but he doesn't have a single receiver, except for Pearsall, they're, you know, they're training for their ninth running back instead of going get another wide receiver. And then you have Kittle. But Kittle, he's been getting injured a lot over the last couple of years, so if Kittle can't put together a full season, this is going to be a rough season for birdie, at least he got paid. There's a couple of big names that I did not put on this list. I mean, tua is one of them, and he's got Hill as a wide receiver, so you would think, man, he should do well, but he is one concussion away from just spending the rest of his days in a bed. I mean, I want the best for tua. I just I've seen all of his concussions, and they're awful. I hope, I hope he has a really safe season. The other big name I didn't mention was Caleb Williams, and there's a reason for that. He's awful. It's, it's just that simple, if you watched him against Casey tonight, that's why they paid $10 million to pageant. Pageant will be starting for Chicago very soon. All right, to finish off the show, I want to talk about the ADP for these quarterbacks, and what you need to watch out for, Jackson is going in the second round. That's kind of a no brainer. It's a big price to pay for Jackson, but I can almost make the argument that he's worth it. I just can't see getting a quarterback in the second round. Allen's early in the third. Then there's borough and Daniels towards the end of the third. And I think borough, if you're going to go get a quarterback at the end of the third, that's the guy to target. That's really good value there in the fourth, that's where hertz goes. Mahomes is going in the fifth, and that's way early. I don't I don't think he cracks the top 10. Mayfield in the sixth, seems like a steal. Nix. In the sixth. That's about right? Kyler Murray in the seventh. What? Golf in the seventh. That's, that's good value there. Caleb Williams is going in the eighth. Please, somebody in my league, take him, please. Dak Prescott in the eighth. And then you've got Purdy in the eighth. And hey, bear in the eighth. I like, I like Justin neighbor in eighth. That's really great value. I'm probably going to be targeting him. And then you have like, you know, CJ Stroud May the ninth fields, which is a terrible pick. And then, love another big name I didn't, I didn't mention, because he can't hit the broadside of the barn. He doesn't even have a barn to throw to, because all of his wide receivers are heard. Now, if you're looking for that second quarterback, or you're going to go heavy running back, then all wide receiver, and you're going to wait on a quarterback, wait until you get close to the 10th round and take pennix. He's going to be there, and you're going to run your league. You could combo him with Stafford in the 11th, and those two quarterbacks, you might win it all. Well, that's our show for tonight. As always, we're gonna give a shout out to the men and women in uniform who protect the freedoms that we hold dear. Thank you for your service and sacrifice, and last, thanks for listening. If you enjoyed this show, follow us on X YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, to stay up to date on our latest content. And until then, remember, established dominance isn't just a catchphrase, it's a commitment. Are you ready? You.