Fantasy Football Quarterback Rankings 2026 — PPR

Josh Allen stands alone at QB1 with a +51.9 draft value and a 34.9-point cliff to Tier 2 — the biggest gap on this entire page. That gap is the cost of leaving this tier empty: no other quarterback projects within 35 draft-value points of him. Tier 1 has the tightest spread on this page (0.0, by definition of a single-member tier), which means there is no internal debate — there is one player here and a hard decision about when to spend a pick on him.

Lamar Jackson (QB2, +17.0), Drake Maye (QB3, +13.1), and Joe Burrow (QB4, +11.7) form a compact group with just a 5.3-point internal spread — all three project meaningfully above replacement. The 6.8-point gap to Tier 3 is real but not catastrophic, so a drafter who misses this tier doesn't fall off a cliff immediately. The strategic question here is whether you target one of these three or accept the shallower surplus below.

Dak Prescott sits alone at QB5 with a +4.9 draft value — above replacement, but only modestly so. The 4.9-point gap to Tier 4 is the exact size of his surplus, meaning the top of Tier 4 is essentially at replacement level. Drafters who wait past this tier are entering a pool where positive draft value disappears entirely.

Thirty-one quarterbacks occupy Tier 4, spanning a 188.0-point internal spread from Jalen Hurts (QB6, +0.0) all the way down to Joe Flacco (QB36, -188.0) — the range here is enormous and the differences between adjacent names matter far less than the tier above. Hurts enters this tier right at replacement level, and the drop accelerates sharply toward the bottom; the names at QB6 through QB12 carry far less downside than those in the QB20s and beyond. With 31 quarterbacks available in this tier, patience is rewarded — there is no urgency to draft a Tier 4 QB early when the top of this group is available deep in any draft.