Last week’s quarterback rankings were a bit topsy-turvy as half of our projected top 10 quarterbacks finished outside of the top 15 for the week. Namely, Patrick Mahomes, who we had projected as our #2 QB, finished at QB22 after a rough day in Buffalo that saw him complete less than 50% of his pass attempts. Meanwhile, veterans like Joe Flacco, Matthew Stafford, Sam Darnold, Geno Smith, and even Jacoby Brissett had stellar games, all finishing inside the top 10 scorers for the week.
This week, we won’t make the mistake of over-ranking Mahomes or overlooking Flacco, since both will be watching this weekend’s games from home just like the rest of us. Joining the Bengals and Chiefs on bye are the Titans and Cowboys, so we will also have to get through this week without Dak Prescott (and Cam Ward, if you play in a league that forces you to play bad quarterbacks). We will also have to get through this week without the benefit of either the Cowboys or Bengals defenses to pick on, so we will have to rank these quarterbacks based on actual talent rather than just hitching our wagons to the guys playing Dallas and Cincy.
Without those two teams, as well as Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs, we notice a dearth of options when it comes to identifying high-scoring games. Add in the fact that as the temperature begins to drop around the country, the game scores will tend to follow suit, and we’re left with only one game projected to eclipse 50 total points on the Week 10 slate. Conversely, there are three matchups that Vegas projects for under 40 total points scored, which notably includes the Jaguars and Texans game, which will likely be played without C.J. Stroud, who suffered a concussion in Week 9. When you also factor in the loss of Jaydin Daniels to a season-ending injury, we start to see the quarterback landscape for week 10 as a potential minefield where finding the safest option to play could seem like a daunting task. Let’s take a look at the Week 10 quarterback rankings and see who our best options are after the top three obvious choices.
Top 10 Week 10 Quarterback Rankings
1) Josh Allen vs. Dolphins
If you drafted Allen, you pulled the trigger early on your QB while many of your league mates were playing the waiting game for late-round gems. After 9 weeks, your decision looks like the right move, because while Allen isn’t the top scorer overall in fantasy, he does sit at #4 and has been in the top 12 in pretty much every single week this season. That’s why you drafted him where you did. It was the equivalent of buying a blue-chip stock while the other guys were all trying to get rich quickly with more volatile options like Kyler Murray and Justin Fields. It’s for that reason that I am keeping him here every single week while he’s healthy. He finished last week as the QB3 thanks to a pair of rushing touchdowns on top of 273 passing yards and an additional score through the air. He’s been a weekly lock for 20+ points, and this week he will take on a Dolphins team in Miami that won’t be able to stop him. In their previous matchup this season, Allen breezed his way to 23 fantasy points. This game sits as the only game on the slate with a projected point total over 50, and the Bills have the highest implied projected point total in the league at 30. The only thing that will keep Allen from scoring over 20 fantasy points again is if James Cook does all of the Buffalo scoring from outside of the red zone. If you have Allen, you don’t need me to tell you to play him.
2) Lamar Jackson vs. Vikings
Lamar Jackson, quarterback, Baltimore Ravens
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We welcomed Lamar back last week after a three-game absence, and he slid right back into our rankings without missing a beat. I did hold him down a bit, ranking him as my 4th best option for Week 9, but he came through for his owners with 25.56 fantasy points, finishing at QB9 overall. That was good enough for me; he’s back up where he belongs in the top 2. We didn’t see much in the lines of the running game from Jackson last week, which is fine as long as he is throwing four touchdowns every game. This week, he and the Ravens will travel to Minnesota to take on a Vikings defense ranked 8th overall vs the pass. Brian Flores will be scheming up ways to contain Lamar and Derrick Henry, so we can expect a lot of blitzing to try and stop the run as well as contain Jackson. That may work for some of the game, but it will also open up plays downfield, so I expect Jackson to hit a big play or two to Tez Walker, Rashad Bateman, or even Isaiah Likely. The bottom line is, Lamar is just too good to ever sniff your bench; get him in your lineup.
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