The fantasy football season is over for the vast majority of us, so instead of the usual “Top 10 Quarterback Rankings” for Week 18, I’m going to go through a recap of the best 10 quarterback picks taken in this year’s fantasy drafts. I’m not talking about simply listing the top 10 scorers at the position, but rather a list of the top 10 draft picks from this year’s fantasy football drafts that helped us win our leagues.
Sorry to all of you Daniel Jones and Sam Darnold owners, but I can’t give a grade to a player who was taken on average as the 30th-32nd quarterback off the board. Think of what Bill Belichick said when reporters would ask him if he knew how great Tom Brady was going to be. His quote was basically, “If we knew he was going to be that good, do you think we would have passed over him with our 5th-round pick?” For this article, we are going to focus solely on players who were taken among the top 24 quarterbacks drafted (according to ESPN).
If you need to know who to start this week, my advice would be to check out our Week 18 quarterback rankings or just play any one of the quarterbacks that is projected to actually play a full game and has been playing for more than a few weeks. That means guys like Joe Burrow, Dak Prescott, Jaxson Dart, and Jared Goff would be my best bets for this week. If you don’t have them, the rest of the list would round out with players like Baker Mayfield, Tyler Shough, Bryce Young, Cam Ward and (gulp) Shadeur Sanders. Read that last sentence again to your league commissioner when you are telling him/her that playing in week 18 is silly. OK, without further ado, let’s take a look at the best 10 quarterback draft picks for 2025.
Top 10 Quarterback Rankings from the 2025 Fantasy Football Season
1) Drake Maye, Patriots
Grade A+ | Average Draft Position: 9th-10th Round | 15th
QB off the board. Hands down, this guy was a league winner. How do I know? Well, I lost in the finals of a high-stakes league, and my opponent was led by Maye and another name from this list that we will get to in a moment. Maye had an MVP-caliber season and finished as the QB2 overall in fantasy. Teams that waited on a QB were able to clean up this year by waiting as late as the 9th or 10th round to roster the second-year signal caller out of North Carolina. His numbers were driven by an impressive 465 rushing yards and 4 rushing TDs to go along with his stellar passing numbers. If you need him for this week, it’s doubtful that he plays more than a few drives against the Dolphins. I would look elsewhere.
2) Trevor Lawrence, Jaguars
Grade A+ | Average Draft Position: 12th-13th Round | 20th QB off the board
Yep, this was my opponent’s 2nd QB in my finals matchup. It took TLaw a few weeks to get going this year as he didn’t even crack the top 20 overall in three of his first four starts, but then things broke open in week 5 when he rushed for his first 2 scores of the year. We didn’t think much of it at the time since his career high coming into this season was 5 rushing scores back in his sophomore season, but he would go on to score 7 more times on the ground for a total of 9 times on the season. Considering he was drafted as a backup option in most leagues, it probably took some time for his owners to settle in on him as their every-week starter. He sits as the overall QB4 after week 17. If you need him in week 18, you can probably go ahead and play him. As of now, he is projected to start against the Titans and probably won’t sit until the game is in hand.
3) Josh Allen, Bills
Grade A | Average Draft Position: 2nd-3rd Round | 1st QB off the board.
Allen sits at third on this list even though he finished the fantasy season as the overall top-scoring player in all of fantasy. He was the perfect third-round pick, and he rewarded his owners handsomely when they decided not to get cute or play games with the most important position in the game. In all likelihood, Allen will cost you a 1st round pick next year, and I can’t argue with that. He lost a couple of points here for being drafted so highly, and for an unfortunate foot injury that affected his numbers in the fantasy playoffs. Right now, it’s 50/50 on whether or not he plays this week. I doubt he plays more than 2 series at most.
