Top 24 Rankings & Tiers - Quarterback & Tight End

we're going to talk about every relevant quarterback and tight end for Fantasy Football starting with the quarterback position tier one these are the guys you need to be going after in round three and if you got them you should be very happy Josh Allen now I understand with Allen yes you have no Diggs you have no Gabe Davis but I've already showed that what we need to be looking forward to is Vegas sportsbooks projections because we understand that those are going to be more accurate than I can be then you can be then really anybody can be because they have every little piece of information at their disposal and right now Sports books are projecting out the Buffalo Bills to be a top five scoring offense this year at number five and you go through and look over the past four seasons for Josh Allen it's a quarterback that has averaged over 23 points per game this a quarterback that's had 390 fantasy points every single year that's why I think you have to have him at one even if his wide receiver core is full of just questionable options because even if his receivers are disappointing he can lean on concade and he had 15 rushing touchdowns last year now Jaylen Herz is another quarterback known to have some rushing touchdown volume and people are putting it into question this year with the departure of Jason Kelce in the addition of saquan Barkley in this offense a lot of people worried that the tush push won't be there some people are excited with the change in offensive coordinator think this going to be a much better Eagles offense than they were a year ago but I do want to take a step backwards and remind you that Jaylen Herz has averaged over 20 points per game for three straight seasons and you go back to 2022 their Jaylen Herz averaged 20 25 points per game which gave you a higher ceiling than any other quarterback we've seen over the past three years from a fantasy football perspective now dropping down to our next tier we're going to look at Lamar Jackson Lamar has been hovering about 20 points per game over the past three years but honestly this may be the best situation that he's ever had now he gets Z flowers going into year two he should hopefully have a fully healthy Mark Andrews and if you're looking at the rushing upside I do want to remind you that it's going to be more important in a league where you only get four points per passing t touchdown if you only get four points per passing touchdown and one point per 25 passing yards those quarterbacks that can go out and average 50 rushing yards per game like Lamar Jackson have double digit rushing touchdowns in an individual season they are going to be able to have such a gap between them in the quarterbacks that actually lead the NFL in passing such as Jared gof and two attack of aloa that we'll talk about later on whereas if you're playing in a league where you get six points per passing touchdown that's actually where the pocket passing options become a little more appealing such as Patrick mahps now obviously Mahomes can run the ball we see him in the playoffs doing it all the time but he's actually averaged over 20 rushing yards per game over the past three years that's not why you're drafting him though the reason you're drafting him is you think he can lead the NFL in passing touchdowns as well as passing yards now he had a massive step backwards from 2022 to 2023 as the Chiefs decided you know what let's be a little more conservative let's run the ball let's lean on our defense and let's just make sure Mahomes doesn't make any mistakes and we'll win a Super Bowl that way and obviously it did work out but now you have the addition of Xavier worthy Hollywood Brown Rashid rice going into year two all in this offense hopefully this opens up the field hopefully we see more deep balls thrown for Patrick Mahomes this season and if that does happen you could see Mahomes get back to where he was in 2022 in 2021 so yeah he was much worse than this last year from a fantasy football perspective but I'm still standing by I think he has that Elite ceiling now going over and looking at our next two quarterbacks I'm flipping this we are going to have CJ then Anthony Richardson now obviously Richardson he's the guy with the rushing upside if you're looking for another quarterback to have 15 rushing touchdowns if you're looking for a quarterback to average 50 rushing yards per game Richardson's your guy which is why if you're in high stakes drafts like if you're drafting on Underdog you will see Anthony richon goes rounds ahead of CJ strout I I don't know if I'm an idiot here I don't know if I'm just overthinking this or not thinking about it enough I but my thought process is CJ strad was just the best rookie quarterback I've ever seen now you have Stefan digs coming into this offense Nico Collins is still in his prime tank Dell is going into year two and it's not like Stroud's going to have one two rushing yards per game with zero rushing touchdowns he's not Kirk Cousins now obviously he's not Lamar Jackson but he is going to be able to pick you up maybe 15 rushing yards per game two to three rushing touchdowns through the course of the entire season but more importantly I think that CJ strad can actually lead the NFL in passing touchdowns and passing yards which is why I would recommend if you are drafting on Underdog fantasy where CJ strad consistent ly Falls to round seven I think that's the platform to be targeting him on and of course if you are not already drafting on Underdog it's the best place to get into an extra fantasy football draft this year because there's no time commitment at all during this season it's how I draft hundreds of teams every year it's how won 150,000 on Underdog two years ago and yeah if you don't already have an account you can find a link in the description in the comment section if you use code flock you're going to get my 2024 rankings draft guide and ADP consensus cheat sheet plus with codee flock you'll also get hooked up with a Christian mcaffry special pick them more than less than half a total yard for week one and a Travis Kelce special pick them more than less than half a total yard for week one as well so make sure you take advantage of that with the link in the description now going over to our next quarterback we are going to be looking at Kyler Murray Kyler Murray arguably is the best Weaponry that he has ever had in his career with not only Trey McBride stepping into his prime but also you're adding in Marvin Harrison Jr which should open up the overall offense now you go back to 2022 the season Kyler got hurt 2023 Kyler coming off that Tor ACL so honestly over the past 2 years it is very difficult to evaluate Kyler Murray but the last time we had him fully healthy through an entire season he did average 21 and a half points per game so I don't know I mean if we go through and look at similar Seasons as what Kyler Murray did from a perame perspective at 26 years old you had Cam Newton in 2014 and donovic McNab in 2001 Dante Co pepper um Newton did it again Aaron Brooks did it a couple times Blake Bortles and Colin Kaepernick in the vast majority of these instances the following year at 27 which Kyler is at right now you actually have that quarterback averaging more than 20 points per game now our next option will be Joe burrow with burrow I am operating under the assumption that Jamar Chase plays week one I mean Chase was my first round pick in the flock league so I'm praying to God that chase will play but you have Chase you have Higgins if you are looking at sports books they are projecting out the Bengals average almost 25 points per game this year indicating that this Joe burough wrist injury isn't something that you should worry about and there's really been nothing in training camp that shows that it should now Jordan love is our next guy with Jordan love should be very good offense he's going to run the ball a little bit he could potentially lead the NFL and passing and obviously the storyline you have in Green Bay is just the amount of weapons that he has now obviously he doesn't have a Jamar Chase level player he doesn't have a Tyreek Hill level player but you have Christian Watson you have Jaden Reed you have Romeo dobs you have Dante Wicks you have Luke Musgrave you have Tucker craft you add in Josh Jacobs who can catch the ball and all of a sudden this looks like a Green Bay Packers room that is similar to what we've seen from the Kansas City Chiefs over the past few years where you don't necessarily have that Alpha wide receiver but when you have so many guys that you're able to spread the ball around to it can just open up the overall offense and a lot of people are thinking that love has MVP level upside this year now going over to Dallas um Dak Prescott has a completely different situation where you don't have a great wide receiver two wide receiver three wide receiver four no you have arguably the best or one of the best wide receivers in the NFL with CD lamb and beyond that you have absolutely nothing I want to say Brandon Cooks is washed I don't think Jaylen tolbert's a great wide receiver three and for this reason you're actually looking at and also offensive line situation but anyway you're looking at sportsbooks projecting the Dallas Cowboys from being the highest scoring offense the NFL last year to taking a step backwards and still being a top 10 offense in total points scored but but not necessarily being that number one unit obviously Dak Prescott has the same issues that you see with Joe burrow Jordan love CJ Stroud and that you're not going to have a ton of rushing production but unlike CJ strad I find it hard to believe with this Supporting Cast that Dak Prescott can lead the NFL in passing and passing touchdowns now once we get through the burrow love Dak tier I want to say this is about the range where you can roster two quarterbacks if you draft Patrick Mahomes in round four you can't roster a backup QB but if you took Dak Prescott as your qb1 I think you can take another one of these guys and just play the matchups from a week to we perspective um Jaden Daniels is our next quarterback I want to be on record I have no idea if Jaden Daniels is going to be good I mean I'm an idiot I can't or I don't think really anybody on YouTube can consistently give you scouting reports from collegate quarterbacks going into the NFL and tell you exactly what they are going to do especially as a rookie but but what I do know with Jaden Daniels is oh okay we can look back at LSU and see that he had 1,00 rushing yards last year 1100 rushing yards in college where sacks account for negative rushing yardage so absolutely insane you're going over to a much worse situation where you go from Malik neighbors and Brian Thomas Jr to H Terry McClaren and God knows who the wide receiver to is here I don't think Daniels is going to crush the the world from like a real life perspective but from a fantasy football perspective if you're playing in a four-point passing touchdown League he has all the upside in the world as a rusher um Brock party little bit opposite of this obviously great news for Brock pie to actually end up getting Brandon iuk back in and perie is one of my two quarterbacks in the flock League what I personally did in my League this year is I identified on the draft board that everybody was going quarterback early I found some other values that I liked so I waited to the last two rounds and I took Brock pie and Caleb Williams and I planed on playing the matchups between these two guys with pie right now the Niners are projected out to be the highest scoring offense in the NFL great news that you have auk great news that you have Debo you have KD you have CMC and at the same time they take a wide receiver in round one this year so I I think it's a really good Supporting Cast and similarly with Caleb Williams you have DJ Moore you have kandan Allen you have romad dun right and with Caleb Williams the man had 10 rushing touchdowns last season now obviously the rushing yardage isn't necessarily there he only averaged I want to say about 15 rushing yards per game so I don't know how much he's going to run at the NFL level I definitely don't think it's going to be up to the Jaden Daniels range but I think that Caleb Williams should be a much better passer than the other rookie quarterbacks this year and I think if you get any rushing it's going to be a bonus now going over to Tua you're going to get zero rushing touchdowns he may not even average five rushing guards per game but with Tua he can lead the NFL in passing I mean look at what he did last season but look at what he did last year and they' understand he only had 15.9 fantasy points per game so this is a massive massive thing to talk about and that if you don't have any rushing upside at all where there is a big difference between say CJ Stout having four to five rushing touchdowns and 15 rushing yards per game versus Tua having zero rushing touchdowns and four rushing yards per game there's a difference between there that is definitely meaningful I think Tua is going to be a week to week player dependent on matchup if you can put him in I'll say the same thing with Trevor Lawrence Lawrence really has never been viable from a fantasy perspective the best year you've seen from him 17 and a half points per game in 2022 and maybe it was just the ankle injury last year maybe Brian Thomas Jr maybe Gabe Davis is exactly what he needs but obviously you lose out on Calvin Ridley I think you're playing on based off matchup Jared gof Kirk Cousins they're the same guy they're going to be very similar to Tua where you have absolutely nothing when it comes to rushing volume but they can potentially lead the NFL in passing if you're playing in a sixo Point passing touchdown format if you're playing in a league where you get one point per 20 passing yards you actually should be targeting these high volume passers at a discount at the very end of your draft but in the regular scoring format for quarterback these guys are going to be more week toe plays based off matchup um Justin Herbert will be our next guy at qb8 I've taken a ton of Justin Herbert in Underdog drafts because it's best ball you have to take two to three quarterbacks in every single one and I think Herbert is a great qb2 to have now I am a little bit worried that he missed so much time with the new coaching staff with a brand new wide receiver core I think that maybe the preseason was going to be very important for him and it's kind of sad that we did not actually get to see any action there but I I don't know I think Herbert is so much more talented than a lot of the quarterbacks that are ahead of him on this list just a tough spot where I don't love the wide receiver core it's a change with the coaching staff they probably wanted to run the ball and Herbert is banged up Matthew Stafford will be our next guy Stafford is obviously giving you zero rushing I don't necessarily think the passing volume could be to that same level as what you're going to expect with Tua and gof and honestly the quarterbacks in this tier I think it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to just leave them on the waiver wire like in the flock League I think Justin Herbert may have been the last pick he may have been Mr Irrelevant um Aaron Rogers Deshawn Watson will be our next two guys kind of streamers based off matchups um if everybody in your league rosters two quarterbacks then maybe go ahead maybe pick up Rogers Watson just because it' be hard to find anybody else off waivers now let's go over to tight end if we are looking at tight end here I think the clear strategy this year with how cheap the elite level options are is I am going after an elite tight end I took Sam leaport in round four of the flock League Sam leapor goes in round four pretty much every single Underdog draft as well and this is a Titan that just put up the best rookie tight end season of all time two yards per route run 11 and a half fantasy points per game 5.1 receptions per game some people are worried that you're going to see overall touchdown regression but I'm looking at the Detroit Lions saying Vegas is projecting this team to score the second most points in the NFL so I'm not as worried about touchdown regression as I would be with someone in a bad offense so I'm fine going in on lorta Travis Kelce will be our next guy here Kelsey is 35 obviously you have a long track record you have Elite quarterback play my thought process is and this could be Dom I I know maybe we're not thinking about it enough but Travis Kelce is a 35-year-old tight end Sam lorta was a rookie and Sam leaport scored more fantasy points last season so with that in mind I'm going to give the edge to Sam leapa but either one of these guys in round four would just be an absolute steal I will say in the flock League Travis Kelce did go a full round before we took Sam La pora though Mark Andrews as our next option Andrews got banged up last year I mean was disappointing for a lot of people in their fantasy teams but he has averaged over 10 points per game over the past three years I know a lot of people think Isaiah likele is some phenomenal Al tight end the reality of this is I think a healthy Mark Andrews clears likely and he doesn't really have to worry about likely taking any of those targets I think this is a good Baltimore Ravens offense I will um point out one thing real quick for the love of God don't be handcuffing your tight end don't take Mark Andrew and then Isaiah likely at the end of your fantasy draft I'm looking at youjo who's a developer of flock fantasy.com and he's currently handcuffing Mark Andrews with likely in the flock league but anyway going over to Trey McBride obviously in the second half of last season McBride absolutely crushed as a year two breakout typically that's the kind of guy you would want to be betting on over the declining veteran or at least the veteran coming off an injury such as Mark Andrews but my hesitation is Harrison coming over I think Marvin Harrison Jr is a topend wide receiver that is going to take a considerable amount of targets away from McBride still I very much like McBride look at a ranking of him here I'm just explaining why he's not uh the tight end two for us cuz obviously I mean the man was at the very top of tight end finishes in the second half of last season and then cancade will be our tight end at five now I am honestly and I know this sounds dumb I maybe a little bit more worried about Dawson Knox taking touchdowns from cancade than I am Isaiah likeley taking touchdowns from Mark Andrews that's why I'm going have concade at the bottom of this tier I've been drafting a ton of Dalton concade in round five though because he could potentially lead the Buffalo Bills in targets like I discussed at the beginning of this video I do think that this is a situation where Buffalo is maybe being a little bit disrespected by the fantasy football community in particular where when you're looking at sports books they are projecting this offense to still be inside the top five so there should be a ton of points scored where it's not necessarily like wide receivers are just dominant here I'm rooting for Keon but we don't know and now our next guy will be Kyle pittz this tier between Pitts and KD I think really could have been shooken up if we would have had Brands and iuk dealt but with auk staying in San Fran I'm going to give the benefit of it out to Kyle pittz I want to be very transparent with you I drafted a lot of Kyle Pitts last year Kyle pittz completely burned me am I drafting a lot of Kyle Pitts this season I haven't been the main reason is is you can get Mark Andrews Dalton C Kate at the beginning of the 5ifth Kyle Pitts goes at the end of the fifth the beginning of the sixth so I would rather just pay a little bit of a higher price tag on the Titans a tier above here rather than just waiting one round and taking pets later and then George KD will be our next guy I mean KD I I know it's seemed like maybe he was disappointing at times last season didn't do much in the real life playoffs didn't matter for you but anyway he's still averaged 2.5 yards per route run he still average 4.1 receptions per game now of course the issue is you have IU you have Debo you have CMC they take a wide receiver round one George KD is 31 years old so he's a declining tight end that's in an offense where you have a ton of competition but if we look at tight ends that had a similar age 30 season to George KD since since the year 2000 you had Delany Walker Tony Gonzalez Owen Daniels Greg Olsen Jimmy Graham Heath Miller and more times than not the Titans the following year average about 13 points per game in a full PPR format now Evan Ingram will be our next option Evan Ingram was at the very top of the NFL in volume last year averaging 6.7 receptions per game so if you think that this volume is going to maintain for Evan Ingram specifically in a full PBR format I think you could very easily move in the tier above this because in a full BR league if you get those cheap receptions then it doesn't really matter if you have touchdown Equity or not you're still going to be viable but there's also that outside chance that Evan Ingram ends up not only getting the same Target volume that he had last year but all of a sudden you actually get the touchdown volatility swing in the favor of Evan Ingram and if that were to occur obviously just absolutely crushes um to be honest with you I don't think Jake Ferguson's that good Jake Ferguson 1.5 yards per route run last year but at the same time um Jake Ferguson is is a younger tight end only going to be 25 years old this next season and as I discussed previously outside of CD Lam I'm not a big Brandon Cooks guy this year Brandon Cooks was at 1.3 yards per route run last season I don't think Jaylen tolber is that good of a wide receiver three at the NFL level so I think Ferguson's in a high-scoring offense where the weapons behind CD lamb are extremely limited where lamb missed out on a decent amount of training camp reps where maybe Jake Fergus Fus is going to be involved in the Red Zone here more than you would typically expect so I I'm completely fine taking a ton of Ferguson because I think he's in a phenomenal situation even if I don't think he's an Elite Talent now our next guy will be David en joku with en joku I think he's great he was much better with Joe Flaco Anders last year than deshun Watson obviously there's just a lot more passing volume in this offense with flacko but if you think Watson could get back to anything like he was in Houston there's a ton of upside here um Brock Bowers look great in the preseason the Raiders went out and they said okay yeah we're going to get this guy involved every way that we can he's already been clear to go week one obviously he was dealing with an injury earlier but you saw him actually have five rushing touchdowns at Georgia he is an extremely Dynamic tight ends the Raiders have already show that they're going to use him all over the football field even though he is a rookie but I I think honestly we should expect him to maybe start a little slower like if I drafted Bowers as my tight end one I'd definitely be looking for another one of these tight ends because you may have to start them at the of the year but I think Bowers could be a very interesting by low candidate if he doesn't do much in the first month of the season because he is a rookie tight ends our next guy will be Dallas GD now Dallas GD technically didn't drop in these rankings with the addition of Jan Dodson but I am definitely less excited about Dallas Goddard Dodson coming over possibly gives Philadelphia a viable wide receiver three and this potentially eats into the target share that you'd expect for gdd um Dallas G declined for three straight Seasons from 2.6 to 2.1 to 1.5 yards per route run but he if you think that this offensive coordinator change is actually going to boost the Philadelphia Eagles passing volume then obviously you can be more excited about him than this ranking um dton Schultz would be your next guy there are just so many targets here where you have to go against Diggs Nico Dell yes I think it's going to be an elite offense I don't think Schultz is an Elite Talent he is 28 and ultimately I just don't know how many targets you can command when if I'm CJ strad every chance I get I'm getting the ball in the hand of Stefon dicks I I'm getting the ball in the hands of Nico Collins I don't know how often I'm looking at Schultz outside of Last Resort um Pat fmuth will be our next guy if you're looking at fth the injury to Roman Wilson really just clears it up where there's nobody else outside of George Pickin here to really command any type of respectable Target share so I definitely think if you wanted to go like two tight ends if you're going to wait till the very end of your draft go like Dallas GD Pat fth pair these two guys together or Tamm Hill here at 15 now with Tamm Hill I want to be very clear with you this is not a tight end that you should ignore in a non PPR format in a non-pbr format where touchdowns are everything Tamm Hill jumps Fruth he jumps Schultz he jumps GD he is up there alongside David and joku and Brock Bowers now in a full PBR League obviously we're expecting some of these other guys to have more targets even if we expect Tamm to Come Away with the touchdowns now our next guy will be TJ hackinson with TJ hackinson only take him if you have an IR slot you can throw him on obviously he's missing the first four weeks it's going to be a tough situation coming into this offense where you have darnold under Center you have Jefferson you have Addison so a ton of Target competition I just do want to be very clear with the TJ Hawkinson pick that he's a good backup if you can throw him on the IR but if you're going to have to put him on your bench he's going to really limit the waiver wire moves that you can make and then Luke Musgrave is our next guy at 17 honestly Musgrave KET Hunter Henry and Kate auton I think these tight ends should most likely be on your waiver wire the only reason I'm even bringing them up is if the vast majority of your other leag mates are rostering a backup tight ends and your tight end one is like Dallas Gard then maybe at that point it does make sense to go ahead get that backup tight end just because you don't want to be taking absolute uh zeros if anything does happen to your starter but I think that's all I got for you really hope that we are able to help you out here and of course I'm going to be drafting every single night on the live stream on this channel so if you want to draft against me you can find that link to Underdog fantasy in the description in the comment section like I said Underdog is the best spot to get into an extra fantasy football draft this year because there's no time commitment at all during the year because it's best ball side draft H teams every year it's I won 150,000 over there two years ago and if you use code flock you're going to get a 50% deposit bonus up to $1,000 my rankings draft guide and ADP consensus cheat sheet plus a Christian MAV special pick them more than less than half a total yard and a Travis Kelce special pick them more than less than half a total yard for week one as well but I think that's all I got for you really do appreciate you really you have a great day and hope I get to see out with the live stream later tonight