Fantasy Football Week 17 QB Rankings: Ravens Sitting Lamar Jackson

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Welcome to our Fantasy Football Quarterback Rankings for Week 17 of the 2019 NFL regular season. This week, we examine a rookie signal-caller out of New York coming off of a record-setting performance. Plus, a gun-slinger from Miami who despite his stellar performance a week ago, is one of the riskier options at the position this week.

Lastly, with essentially nothing to play for, the Baltimore Ravens have decided to sit the best quarterback in fantasy for the final game of the regular season.

Reminder: These rankings are based on standard league scoring formats where quarterbacks are rewarded with 4-points per passing touchdown.

* If you’re looking for more information on how to best set your lineup this coming week check out our Week 17 QB Start ‘Em, Sit ‘Em.

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Quarterback Outlook Week 17

This is a prime example of why you don’t play 17 week fantasy football seasons. With the top-seed in the AFC locked up, the Baltimore Ravens have decided to sit Lamar Jackson for Week 17.

If you’re searching through the waiver wire in hopes of replacing Jackson’s production, good luck, it won’t happen. However, a rookie in New York may be a nice consolation prize.

Prior to this past Sunday, Daniel Jones (QB11) hadn’t taken the field in over two weeks while nursing an ankle injury. Over that period, Eli Manning proved to have a bit more juice left in the tank, leading to some Giants fans wondering what the season could have been had the organization not pulled the plug on Manning so early on in the season.

However, Jones returned to the team’s lineup in Week 16 and quickly put an end to all that chatter. The rookie out of Duke absolutely torched the division rival Washington Redskins to the tune of 352 passing yards, five touchdowns, and a position-leading 35.3 fantasy points. In that contest, Jones became the first rookie in NFL history to throw for 350+ yards, five touchdowns, and zero interceptions in a single-game.

This type of performance may be eye-popping to the casual fan, however, it’s not far off from the typical output we’ve gotten from Jones when healthy this season. In fact, Jones has now scored four-plus touchdowns in three of his last six games.

He’ll look to extend that streak into Week 17, while simultaneously crushing the Philadelphia Eagles‘ playoff dreams. The Eagles defenses shined against an underperforming Dallas team a week ago. Yet prior to that contest, Philly had surrendered an average of 20.95 fantasy points to QBs over a three-game span.

Jones is on the cusp of being a locked-in QB1 this coming Sunday.

Ryan Fitzpatrick (QB24) ranked as our QB6 heading into Week 16. The journeyman signal-caller rewarded us for our faith in him with an astonishing 32.7 fantasy points, the third-most by a quarterback for the week.

Fitzpatrick has now quietly become the fourth-highest scoring fantasy QB since Week 11, sitting behind just Lamar Jackson, Drew Brees, and Ryan Tannehill.

However, you’ve likely drained all you can out of FItzmagic at this point. You’d be foolish to roll with the QB in what is either your championship game or the latter half of your two-week final. No defense allows fewer fantasy points to opposing QBs this season than the Pats at just slightly above 11 points per game. You’d best be served to look elsewhere when filling your QB slot this week.


Week 17 Fantasy Rankings: Quarterbacks

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  • Matchup: Great l Avg l Tough
# Quarterbacks TEAM Opp.

1

Ryan Tannehill TEN 

@ HOU

2

Patrick Mahomes KC

vs. LAC

3

Jameis Winston TB

vs. ATL

4

Deshaun Watson HOU

vs. TEN

5

Carson Wentz PHI

@ NYG

6

Aaron Rodgers GB

@ DET

7

Russell Wilson SEA

vs. SF

8

Drew Brees NO

@ CAR

9

Matt Ryan ATL

@ TB

10

Josh Allen BUF

vs. NYJ

11

Daniel Jones NYG

vs. PHI

12

Tom Brady NE

vs. MIA

13

Baker Mayfield CLE

@ CIN

14

Dak Prescott DAL

vs. WAS

15

Drew Lock DEN

vs. OAK

16

Jared Goff LAR

vs. ARI

17

Gardner Minshew JAC

vs. IND

18

Kyler Murray ARI

@ LAR

19

Andy Dalton CIN

vs. CLE

20

Jimmy Garoppolo SF

@ SEA

21

Robert Griffin III BAL 

vs. PIT

22

Kirk Cousins MIN

vs. CHI

23

Jacoby Brissett IND

@ JAC

24

Ryan Fitzpatrick MIA

@ NE

25

Case Keenum WAS

@ DAL

26

Sam Darnold NYJ

@ BUF

27

Dwayne Haskins WAS INJ

@ DAL

28

Derek Carr OAK

@ DEN

29

Philip Rivers LAC

@ KC

30

Mitchell Trubisky CHI

@ MIN

31

Will Grier CAR

vs. NO

32

Devlin Hodges PIT

@ BAL

33

David Blough DET

vs. GB

34

Taysom Hill NO

@ CAR

35

Nick Foles JAC

vs. IND

36

Chase Daniels CHI

@ MIN

37

Tyrod Taylor LAC

@ KC

38

Kyle Allen CAR

vs. NO

39

Josh Rosen MIA

@ NE

40

Marcus Mariota TEN

@ HOU

41

Ryan Finley CIN

vs. CLE

42

Brandon Allen DEN

vs. OAK

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