12-team Half-PPR · 36 players · 4 tiers
Fantasy Football Quarterback Rankings 2026 — Half-PPR
These are RotoAlpha's 12-team Half-PPR quarterback rankings, where tiers group QBs by similar Draft Value surplus over replacement level — the wider the gap between tiers, the more it costs to miss.
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Tier 1 (rank 1)
Josh Allen stands alone at QB1 with a projected 310.6 points and a +51.4 Draft Value — and the cliff below him is 33.7 points, the biggest gap on this entire page. No other position tier on these rankings carries a drop that steep. The question isn't whether Allen is worth prioritizing; it's whether you're willing to build the rest of your roster around securing him.
| # | Player | Overall | Team | Proj | Draft Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josh Allen | #25 | BUF | 310.6 | +51.4 |
Tier 2 (ranks 2–4)
Lamar Jackson, Drake Maye, and Joe Burrow are separated by just 7.3 Draft Value points internally — a tight cluster of genuinely above-replacement starters. The gap below this tier is only 6.2 points, so there's no catastrophic penalty for sliding to Tier 3, but you do leave this group empty. If you miss all three here, you're settling for a single-player bridge before the field flattens out entirely.
| # | Player | Overall | Team | Proj | Draft Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Lamar Jackson | #51 | BAL | 276.9 | +17.7 |
| 3 | Drake Maye | #55 | NE | 272.7 | +13.5 |
| 4 | Joe Burrow | #59 | CIN | 269.6 | +10.4 |
Tier 3 (rank 5)
Dak Prescott sits alone at QB5 with a +4.2 Draft Value — still above replacement, but just barely, and the 4.2-point gap to Tier 4 is the exact size of that surplus. Draft him and you have a starter who projects above the replacement line; pass on him and you're immediately in a tier where most quarterbacks project below it.
| # | Player | Overall | Team | Proj | Draft Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Dak Prescott | #68 | DAL | 263.4 | +4.2 |
Tier 4 (ranks 6–36)
Thirty-one quarterbacks share this tier, spanning a 188.6-point internal spread from Jalen Hurts at +0.0 Draft Value all the way down to Joe Flacco at -188.6. The top of this group — Hurts, Jayden Daniels, Matthew Stafford — still projects competitively in raw points, while the back end represents deep-roster depth at best. With no cliff below, there's no urgency to reach inside Tier 4; the supply is deep enough to wait and fill the position with your remaining picks.
| # | Player | Overall | Team | Proj | Draft Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Jalen Hurts | #71 | PHI | 259.2 | +0.0 |
| 7 | Jayden Daniels | #91 | WAS | 254.1 | -5.1 |
| 8 | Matthew Stafford | #92 | LAR | 252.6 | -6.6 |
| 9 | Trevor Lawrence | #108 | JAX | 247.6 | -11.6 |
| 10 | Brock Purdy | #109 | SF | 247.1 | -12.1 |
| 11 | Patrick Mahomes | #111 | KC | 246.1 | -13.1 |
| 12 | Jared Goff | #117 | DET | 243.8 | -15.4 |
| 13 | Caleb Williams | #124 | CHI | 241.3 | -17.9 |
| 14 | Bo Nix | #129 | DEN | 239.6 | -19.6 |
| 15 | Justin Herbert | #135 | LAC | 237.0 | -22.2 |
| 16 | Baker Mayfield | #145 | TB | 231.3 | -27.9 |
| 17 | Fernando Mendoza | #175 | LV | 222.7 | -36.5 |
| 18 | Jaxson Dart | #178 | NYG | 221.7 | -37.5 |
| 19 | Kyler Murray | #189 | MIN | 217.4 | -41.8 |
| 20 | Jordan Love | #197 | GB | 215.8 | -43.4 |
| 21 | Sam Darnold | #205 | SEA | 213.4 | -45.8 |
| 22 | Tyler Shough | #212 | NO | 209.5 | -49.7 |
| 23 | C.J. Stroud | #213 | HOU | 209.4 | -49.8 |
| 24 | Daniel Jones | #218 | IND | 207.8 | -51.4 |
| 25 | Cam Ward | #229 | TEN | 200.4 | -58.8 |
| 26 | Tua Tagovailoa | #276 | ATL | 186.1 | -73.1 |
| 27 | Geno Smith | #286 | NYJ | 183.6 | -75.6 |
| 28 | Aaron Rodgers | #312 | PIT | 175.3 | -83.9 |
| 29 | Bryce Young | #329 | CAR | 172.2 | -87.0 |
| 30 | Malik Willis | #343 | MIA | 170.1 | -89.1 |
| 31 | Jacoby Brissett | #360 | ARI | 166.8 | -92.4 |
| 32 | Ty Simpson | #370 | LAR | 163.8 | -95.4 |
| 33 | Kirk Cousins | #433 | LV | 154.5 | -104.7 |
| 34 | Deshaun Watson | #909 | CLE | 88.1 | -171.1 |
| 35 | Justin Fields | #910 | KC | 71.5 | -187.7 |
| 36 | Joe Flacco | #911 | CIN | 70.6 | -188.6 |
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