For our 2nd round of DSE Rankings, we had 2 new rankers join the team (Mark B and Brett S.). We started off with the QB position and didn’t see too much of a change at the top. Mahomes and Lamar were still 1-2 in our rankings, followed by Russell, Kyler, Deshaun, and Dak, same 3 through 6 as it was in June, just in a different order.
There was some downward movement with regards to the older crowd of QBs. Matt Ryan and Drew Brees dropped fairly significantly, along with Phillip Rivers and Kirk Cousins. The biggest risers were Josh Allen, jumping 6 spots to 8th overall, Sam Darnold moving up 5, Drew Lock up 4. The NFL’s Most Exciting Player jumped a full 7 spots to 28th overall, which isn’t bad considering Jameis isn’t even a starter this season.
The biggest jump understandably came from Cam Newton. With Newton going from unemployed to the Pats in July, he’s got a chance to become a top 10 QB again. The 31-year-old is clearly the best QB on the Pats roster, and the recent injury to Jarret Stidham makes the path to starting in week 1 even clearer.
As always, we took a look at rookies, and there was little to no movement with the 4 players chosen in round 1. Burrow (11), Tua (15), Herbert (26) and Love (37) are all ahead of Duane Haskins (38).
(T) | Rank | Prev. Rank | Rank Change | Player | Avg. | Mark DeCicco | Mark B. | Brett S. | Christoper Conte |
1 | 1 | 0 | Patrick Mahomes | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
2 | 2 | 0 | Lamar Jackson | 2.5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | |
3 | 5 | 2 | Deshaun Watson | 3.0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
4 | 3 | -1 | Kyler Murray | 5.0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | |
5 | 6 | 1 | Russell Wilson | 5.5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 8 | |
6 | 4 | -2 | Dak Prescott | 6.3 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | |
7 | 7 | 0 | Carson Wentz | 6.5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 5 | |
8 | 14 | 6 | Josh Allen | 7.3 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 4 | |
9 | 8 | -1 | Baker Mayfield | 10.3 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 13 | |
10 | 10 | 0 | Aaron Rodgers | 10.8 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 14 | |
11 | 11 | 0 | Joe Burrow | 11.5 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 12 | |
12 | 12 | 0 | Matthew Stafford | 13.0 | 12 | 19 | 10 | 11 | |
13 | 9 | -4 | Matt Ryan | 14.0 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 16 | |
14 | 19 | 5 | Sam Darnold | 16.0 | 23 | 15 | 17 | 9 | |
15 | 16 | 1 | Tua Tagovailoa | 17.3 | 25 | 12 | 14 | 18 | |
16 | 13 | -3 | Jared Goff | 17.8 | 24 | 14 | 12 | 21 | |
17 | 20 | 3 | Ryan Tannehill | 18.3 | 15 | 24 | 19 | 15 | |
18 | 22 | 4 | Drew Lock | 18.5 | 17 | 18 | 20 | 19 | |
T | 19 | 21 | 2 | Jimmy Garoppolo | 19.5 | 19 | 17 | 18 | 24 |
T | 19 | 15 | -4 | Daniel Jones | 19.5 | 21 | 16 | 15 | 26 |
21 | 37 | 16 | Cam Newton | 19.8 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 17 | |
22 | 24 | 2 | Ben Roethlisberger | 21.3 | 18 | 30 | 27 | 10 | |
23 | 17 | -6 | Kirk Cousins | 22.0 | 16 | 23 | 21 | 28 | |
24 | 18 | -6 | Drew Brees | 23.0 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 20 | |
25 | 23 | -2 | Tom Brady | 23.5 | 14 | 26 | 32 | 22 | |
26 | 26 | 0 | Justin Herbert | 26.3 | 26 | 22 | 23 | 34 | |
27 | 25 | -2 | Derek Carr | 28.3 | 29 | 29 | 30 | 25 | |
T | 28 | 35 | 7 | Jameis Winston | 28.5 | 28 | 33 | 26 | 27 |
T | 28 | 27 | -1 | Teddy Bridgewater | 28.5 | 32 | 21 | 24 | 37 |
30 | 29 | -1 | Gardner Minshew II | 29.0 | 30 | 27 | 29 | 30 | |
31 | 28 | -3 | Philip Rivers | 31.0 | 27 | 41 | 33 | 23 | |
32 | 36 | 4 | Mitchell Trubisky | 32.0 | 35 | 31 | 31 | 31 | |
33 | 33 | 0 | Tyrod Taylor | 32.3 | 31 | 35 | 34 | 29 | |
34 | 32 | -2 | Nick Foles | 34.5 | 33 | 34 | 38 | 33 | |
35 | 31 | -4 | Jarrett Stidham | 35.8 | 34 | 37 | 40 | 32 | |
36 | 44 | 8 | Jalen Hurts | 37.0 | 40 | 36 | 36 | 36 | |
37 | 38 | 1 | Jordan Love | 37.3 | 41 | 32 | 35 | 41 | |
38 | 30 | -8 | Dwayne Haskins | 37.8 | 41 | 41 | 28 | 41 | |
39 | 34 | -5 | Ryan Fitzpatrick | 38.3 | 36 | 41 | 37 | 39 | |
40 | 39 | -1 | Shaun Hill | 38.5 | 38 | 40 | 41 | 35 | |
41 | 42 | 1 | Marcus Mariota | 38.8 | 37 | 39 | 41 | 38 | |
42 | 43 | 1 | Jacob Eason | 39.8 | 41 | 38 | 39 | 41 | |
43 | 40 | -3 | Andy Dalton | 40.5 | 39 | 41 | 41 | 41 |
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