Draft Guide: Quarterbacks — targets, busts and sleepers

Draft Guide: Quarterbacks — targets, busts and sleepers

Author: Yahoo Sports August 10, 2020 Duration: 49:28

Welcome to the Yahoo Sports Fantasy Football Forecast! Yahoo’s Scott Pianowski and 4for4Football’s T.J. Hernandez are here to talk about all things quarterbacks: the targets, the sleepers and, of course, the busts.

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Here’s the plan for this week: every day, we’re dedicating an episode on draft strategy for the big four positions in fantasy football, quarterbacks, running backs, receivers and tight ends.


In today’s episode, Scott Pianowski and T.J. Hernandez discuss their approach for quarterbacks. The consensus strategy when it came fo quarterbacks for a long time was no matter what you do, always, always, always wait on drafting a quarterback. Is that how we should handle quarterbacks this year? Scott and T.J. take a look at the entire quarterback draft board and share their advice on how to handle the position in 2020.


Tier 1: Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson (06:25)

Tier 2: Dak Prescott, Russell Wilson, Kyler Murray (09:55)

Tier 3: Deshaun Watson, Josh Allen, Matt Ryan (13:55)

Tier 4: Drew Brees, Carson Wentz, Matt Stafford, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers (22:00)

Tier 5: Daniel Jones, Ben Roethlisberger, Cam Newton, Baker Mayfield (28:15)

Tier 6: Ryan Tannehill, Jared Goff, Jimmy Garoppolo, Joe Burrow. Gardner Minshew (34:10)


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