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The importance of quarterbacks in fantasy football has waxed and waned over the years, but the elite ones still serve as game-changers. It's a pa sing era, as evidenced by the 980-395 collective pa sing/rushing splits over the past two Super Bowls. So, with the smoke cleared from the Chiefs' second title in four years, we decided to compile a way-too-early top 10 ranking of the 2023 fantasy QBs.It may seem "way too early," with the 2023 NFL season set to kick off roughly 200 days from this article's publication, but it's never too early to get a head-start on fantasy planning for the following season. The research we conduct and mental notes we leave ourselves now could pay off handsomely in the long run, as fantasy draft season tends to be a whirlwind.The 2022 season could be a distant memory for us in seven months, whereas it's currently fresh in our minds. So, let's use that freshne s to our advantage and determine which order we would select the top crop of QBs if our 2023 fantasy football leagues drafted today.2023 FANTASY RANKINGS: | | RankPlayerTeam1Patrick MahomesKC2Josh Kelly Oubre Jr. Jersey AllenBUF3Jalen HurtsPHI4Joe BurrowCIN5Lamar JacksonBAL6Justin FieldsCHI7Justin HerbertLAC8Dak PrescottDAL9Kirk CousinsMIN10Trevor LawrenceJAXLikely no surprise to anyone, our top four QBs for 2023 consist of the same top four who led all QBs in fantasy scoring in 2022. You would have probably only needed one chance to name the four: 2022 MVP and Super Bowl 57 MVP Patrick Mahomes, NFC champion and MVP runner-up Jalen Hurts, Bills superstar and 2022 preseason MVP favorite Josh Allen (who finished third in MVP voting), and2021 AFC champ Joe Burrow (fourth in MVP voting). Our entire fantasy team had Mahomes and Allen atop the rankings, and each analyst had Hurts and Burrow either third or fourth.That's where things get interesting. My colleagues selected Justin Herbertfifth, while I had the 2020 Rookie of the Year seventh. It's not that I doubt the QB's skills he' E'Twaun Moore Jersey s great. I just can't get past the fact that (a) he just finished 11th in QB fantasy points, (b) extremely injury-prone players Keenan Allen and Mike Williams are his top two wideouts, and (c) Austin Ekeler remains the MVP of the Chargers offense. For these reasons, I choseLamar JacksonandJustin Fields ahead of Herbs.L-Jax and Fields are prototypical mobile QBs, po sibly the best two not named Michael Vick to ever do it. We expect Jackson to get paid and the Baltimore bra s to get him some pa s-catching help to complement stud tight end Mark Andrews and wideoutRashod Bateman, the latter of whom mi sed most of the 2022 season with a foot injury.As for Fields, the future of the Bears organization around him is uncertain, but he could put up top-six fantasy numbers with around him. The soon-to-be third-year QB has modeled his running game after Jackson, and the result was an NFL-leading 7.1 yards per carry and eight ground TDs.The remaining top 10 was easy except for the tough omi sion of Tua Tagovailoa, whom my colleagues included in the tail end of their rankings. A healthy Tua with Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle is undoubtedly dominant, but multiple concu sions this season will have me staying away from him in drafts. I'd rather have Dak Prescott, Kirk Cousins, and Trevor Lawrence. Dakmi sed five games after breaking bones in his hand in the 2022 NFL season opener, but he was incendiary in the second half of the season. Cousins had arguably his best season as a pro, leading the NFL with eight game-winning comeback drives with the help of Offensive Player of the Year Justin Jefferson. T-Law might be the NFL's next superstar in the making, having led the Jags from worst to first in the AFC South in just one season under Doug Pederson. |
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