In this week’s edition of The Banana Stand, Shawn Siegele dives into the quarterback position and provides ROS rankings ahead of Week 4.
A lot of extremely encouraging fantasy developments as we transition from Week 3 to Week 4.
- Zero RB candidate and priority target Cam Skattebo already looks like a league-winner.
- Zero RB candidate and target Trey Benson benefits from the sad injury to a permanently snake-bitten James Conner. He’s well-positioned for outsized impact.
- Priority target Luther Burden’s big splash in Week 3 positions him for midseason fantasy impact and eventual WR2 status in Chicago, a fantasy wonderland.
- Priority target Jordan Addison returns from suspension into a Minnesota passing offense that looks moderately more competent than it did a week ago.
- Jaxon Dart ascends to the starting lineup in New York, ending the long national nightmare that is Russell Wilson pulling the trigger for any offense. It’s no guarantee of competence, as J.J. McCarthy and Michael Penix are proving to Justin Jefferson and Drake London fans, but it’s a step in the right direction for Malik Nabers.
For more on all of that, make sure to check out this week’s episodes of RotoViz Overtime, and keep your eye out in case Ben and I release a late-week Stealing Bananas.
In today’s exercise, I’m going to use the Weekly Stat Explorer, Strength of Schedule Streamer, NFL Pace app, and other RotoViz tools to break down the quarterbacks through three weeks. Our thesis that you could play the QB position from a variety of price points, as long as you structured your squad appropriately around it, looks good through three weeks.
But how much of the early going has relied on matchups? Can surprise players like Daniel Jones (a SF tournament favorite) maintain? Is Caleb Williams for real? Who has favorable matchups down the stretch?
Let’s jump in, and I’ll re-rank the QBs within tiers at the end.
