2026 Fantasy Football Quarterback Rankings: Top 10 QBs, Full Rankings

Quarterback is the most important position on any NFL football team, and they carry equal weight for a fantasy football team. There are far fewer of them to go around than wide receivers or running backs, so getting this pick right can make or break a fantasy season.

Want to make sure you secure a truly game-changing QB for your team? We’ve stacked up this year’s available options at the position in fantasy drafts. Here’s our top 10 fantasy football quarterbacks for 2026, plus a full ranking of all fantasy QBs available this season.

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Top Fantasy Football Quarterbacks in 2026 (Updated 7/13/2026)

Here are the top 10 quarterbacks available in this year’s fantasy football drafts, plus the full fantasy football QB rankings by ADP (average draft position) in 2026.

This is a consensus ranking and may differ based on your league’s specific format and scoring rules. Points based on PPR scoring.

1. Josh Allen – Buffalo Bills (Tier 1, ADP 28)

2025 Stats: 362.6 points, 3,668 passing yards, 25 Pass TD, 10 INT, 579 rushing yards, 14 Rush TD

There’s a reason Allen is the first quarterback off the board in most drafts yet again. His 14 rushing touchdowns in 2025 led the position and turned even quiet passing days into fantasy wins. That rushing floor is the safest factor in drafting a QB this year. He’s never surrendered the goal-line and short-yardage carries, which is what separates him from the pocket passers chasing him.

Buffalo reshaped the staff around him, firing Sean McDermott and promoting Joe Brady to head coach while he keeps calling plays, with Pete Carmichael Jr. arriving as coordinator. The bigger fantasy news is the trade for DJ Moore, giving Allen a true No. 1 target after a 2025 season in which no Bills receiver cracked 750 yards. Elite legs, an upgraded receiver room and an offense-first head coach put both his ceiling and his floor near the top of the position.

2. Lamar Jackson – Baltimore Ravens (Tier 2, ADP 46)

2025 Stats: 212.9 points, 2,549 passing yards, 21 Pass TD, 7 INT, 349 rushing yards, 2 Rush TD

Jackson’s 2025 was cut to 13 games, and the numbers slipped with it: 21 touchdown passes, just two on the ground, and a career-low 67 rushing attempts across those appearances. For a quarterback whose fantasy value has always leaned on his legs, that dip matters, especially with Derrick Henry (16 rushing scores) owning the goal line in Baltimore. Jackson has been noncommittal about running more, which is the exact uncertainty that dropped him behind Allen.

There’s real change after a 6-7 season and a missed playoff berth. John Harbaugh is gone, Jesse Minter takes over as head coach and 30-year-old Declan Doyle installs a new offense Jackson has called ‘mind-blowing.’ History says he thrives on fresh scheming, with MVPs in his first years under Greg Roman and Todd Monken, and Zay Flowers (1,211 yards) plus a returning Mark Andrews give him the weapons. Whether the designed-run volume comes back is the swing between a bounce-back and another muted year.

3. Drake Maye – New England Patriots (Tier 3, ADP 57)

2025 Stats: 348 points, 4,394 passing yards, 31 Pass TD, 8 INT, 450 rushing yards, 4 Rush TD

Maye’s second season was a genuine breakout: 4,394 passing yards, 31 touchdowns, and a league-best QBR while carrying New England all the way to Super Bowl LX. What pushes him this high, though, is the rushing. His 450 yards and four scores on 103 carries give him the dual-threat profile fantasy managers pay up for, not the empty ceiling of a pocket-only arm.

The Patriots handed him a new toy this offseason, landing A.J. Brown in a trade with Philadelphia to pair with Hunter Henry in Josh McDaniels’ tight-end-friendly scheme. The one worry sits up front, where the line surrendered 21 sacks across the postseason, six of them in the Super Bowl, and protection is the stated offseason priority. Fix the pocket and Maye has a real case as a top-three fantasy quarterback.

4. Joe Burrow – Cincinnati Bengals (Tier 3, ADP 59)

2025 Stats: 134.5 points, 1,809 passing yards, 17 Pass TD, 5 INT, 41 rushing yards, 0 Rush TD

Health is the whole conversation with Burrow. A Grade 3 turf toe injury in Week 2 required surgery and cost him nine games, leaving him with just 1,809 yards over eight appearances, and it’s the third time in six seasons he’s missed a big chunk of a year. He’s a pocket passer with almost no rushing to fall back on, so the floor is tied directly to staying upright.

When he plays, the ceiling is obvious. Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins are both back and both extended, giving Burrow one of the best receiver duos in football, and Zac Taylor and coordinator Dan Pitcher return for continuity. Cincinnati still needs to rebuild the interior line in front of him, which is exactly why the durability question keeps him around QB4 rather than higher.

5. Jayden Daniels – Washington Commanders (Tier 3, ADP 63)

2025 Stats: 112.3 points, 1,262 passing yards, 8 Pass TD, 3 INT, 278 rushing yards, 2 Rush TD

A year ago Daniels looked like a foundational fantasy QB, but a bruising 2025 complicated that story. A knee sprain, a hamstring injury and a dislocated left elbow limited him to seven games, and his rushing efficiency fell from 6.0 to 4.8 yards a carry even as he kept averaging 8.3 attempts. He’s reported healthy for the start of 2026, but the durability of his running style is now the central question.

Washington moved on from Kliff Kingsbury and promoted David Blough to coordinator, shifting toward a more traditional West Coast look with more under-center snaps and play-action, partly designed to keep Daniels out of harm’s way. Terry McLaurin is back on a new deal, though the departures of Deebo Samuel and Zach Ertz thin the room behind him. The dual-threat upside still puts him in the top six. He just carries more risk than he did last summer.

6. Jalen Hurts – Philadelphia Eagles (Tier 3, ADP 67)

2025 Stats: 299.1 points, 3,224 passing yards, 25 Pass TD, 6 INT, 421 rushing yards, 8 Rush TD

Hurts remains a touchdown machine near the goal line. The tush push survived another ban vote and stays legal in 2026, and Philadelphia led the league with 27 attempts, so that short-yardage role is still the backbone of his fantasy value. It has to be, because the rest of his rushing profile cooled: a career-low 105 carries and eight rushing scores snapped a four-year run of double-digit rushing touchdowns.

The offense looks different after A.J. Brown was dealt to New England, pushing DeVonta Smith into the clear No. 1 role and funneling more work to Saquon Barkley behind a healthy line. New coordinator Sean Mannion brings a motion-and-play-action scheme, though reports of Hurts resisting under-center looks are worth tracking through camp. He’s a steady QB1 whose ceiling now depends more on passing volume than it used to.

7. Caleb Williams – Chicago Bears (Tier 3, ADP 71)

2025 Stats: 317.2 points, 3,942 passing yards, 27 Pass TD, 7 INT, 388 rushing yards, 3 Rush TD

Year one under Ben Johnson ended with Williams just shy of 20 fantasy points a game, and the arrow points up. He threw for 3,942 yards and 27 touchdowns behind a top-five offensive line that slashed his sack rate, and he chipped in 388 rushing yards, sneaky production that lifts both his floor and his ceiling even without a goal-line role.

Chicago traded DJ Moore to Buffalo, clearing the way for Rome Odunze as the alpha receiver alongside ascending slot man Luther Burden III and second-year tight end Colston Loveland, whom Johnson has openly hyped. The scores near the end zone mostly go to D’Andre Swift and Kyle Monangai, so the real upside here is a passing leap in year two of the system. Bet on the development curve and Williams is a value at this range.

8. Justin Herbert – Los Angeles Chargers (Tier 4, ADP 82)

2025 Stats: 284.9 points, 3,727 passing yards, 26 Pass TD, 13 INT, 498 rushing yards, 2 Rush TD

Herbert quietly leaned on his legs in 2025, ranking sixth among quarterbacks in rushing yards per game and setting a career high with 498 on the ground. Paired with 26 touchdown passes, that mobility carried him to a top-10 fantasy finish despite an offensive line that lost Rashawn Slater and Joe Alt to injury for most of the year.

Both tackles are expected back healthy, and the Chargers made a splashy hire in Mike McDaniel as coordinator after firing Greg Roman, a move that should open up a more creative passing attack. Keenan Allen is gone, but Ladd McConkey headlines the receivers and David Njoku joins a crowded tight-end room. The wrinkle for drafters is that a healthier line and McDaniel’s system may convert some of that rushing into passing volume, nudging Herbert’s overall value up even if the legs cool.

9. Dak Prescott – Dallas Cowboys (Tier 4, ADP 83)

2025 Stats: 307.8 points, 4,552 passing yards, 30 Pass TD, 10 INT, 177 rushing yards, 2 Rush TD

Prescott stayed healthy for all 17 games and it showed, with 4,552 passing yards, 30 touchdowns, and a QB7 finish in points per game. He does almost none of it with his legs, though, managing just 177 rushing yards, so this is a pure pocket-passer profile built on volume of roughly 34 attempts a game and the talent around him.

That talent is loaded. CeeDee Lamb returns, George Pickens is back on the franchise tag after a 1,429-yard breakout and Jake Ferguson gives Dak a dependable tight end in year two of Brian Schottenheimer’s offense. His 2025 touchdown rate was unusually low, which points to positive regression in a passing game this stacked, so long as you understand you’re drafting production and not rushing upside.

10. Trevor Lawrence – Jacksonville Jaguars (Tier 4, ADP 87)

2025 Stats: 336.2 points, 4,007 passing yards, 29 Pass TD, 12 INT, 359 rushing yards, 9 Rush TD

Lawrence finally broke out in Liam Coen’s first year in Jacksonville, and the smart money says he takes another step now that he’s running the same scheme for a second straight season. Coen’s offense pushed the Jaguars to 13 wins and the AFC South title, and Lawrence closed the year as fantasy’s per-game QB1 over the back half of 2025, averaging 27 points across that stretch. He’s now piled up 23 rushing scores since entering the league in 2021, third-most among all QBs. That mobility is his floor and his ceiling, and it’s the biggest reason he pushed into the top 10 this week.

The catch is that nobody expects nine rushing scores again, and Lawrence’s supporting cast still has questions to answer. Brian Thomas Jr. slipped to 48 catches for 707 yards after a monster rookie campaign, and Jacksonville needs that deep connection to click for the passing volume to hold up. Travis Hunter is expected to spend more time at cornerback this season, though Parker Washington, Jakobi Meyers and tight end Brenton Strange give Coen plenty of options behind a mostly intact offensive line.

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