Fantasy Football Stats to Know: Quarterbacks

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It can be difficult to read such a vast amount of content, which is why we’ve rounded up 25 of the most actionable, can’t-miss stat nuggets you absolutely need to know for the 2025 fantasy football season. In addition to our expert consensus rankings (ECR) and Real-Time ADP, you don’t have any excuses not to be prepared for your upcoming draft(s). Click on each author’s byline to read the entire article. Good luck this season.

2025 Fantasy Football Stats to Know

Must-Know Quarterback Fantasy Football Stats

Jalen Hurts (QB – PHI)

Jalen Hurts is one of the “big five” fantasy quarterbacks for a reason. While he may have only had 18 passing touchdowns and 2,900 yards in 15 games last season, he rushed for 650 yards and 14 touchdowns. There is no reason to think the Eagles’ rushing and goal-line philosophy will change this season, making Hurts one of the most valuable dual-threat quarterbacks.

Hurts was second in fantasy points per dropback and fourth in yards per attempt in 2024. If the Eagles are forced to air it out more in 2025 because of a harder schedule and a slight dip in their defense, this ADP of 42 will look silly by the end of the year.

-Ryan Kirksey

Bryce Young (CAR)

It took an early-season benching to get there, but the results were fantastic. Bryce Young was truly a changed man under Dave Canales and behind a solid offensive line. After his return to a full-time starter in Week 8, Young averaged 18.6 fantasy points per game. The production was a bit inconsistent but featured three top-10 performances, including an overall QB1 week of over 35 fantasy points. Some of that inconsistency wasn’t Young’s fault. His receiving corps was unreliable and lacked a true No. 1 WR.

-Tera Roberts

Jared Goff (QB – DET)

Last year, Jared Goff had the best season of his career, finishing as the QB6, averaging 19.1 fantasy points per game. The veteran had over 4,600 passing yards for the third time in his career, with the last time coming in 2019 with the Los Angeles Rams. Furthermore, he set career highs in several categories, including completion rate (72.4%), passing touchdowns (37) and quarterback rating (111.8). Yet, fantasy players should temper expectations for Goff this season.

The veteran is due for touchdown regression. Last year, Goff posted a career-high 6.9% passing touchdown rate. By comparison, his previous career best was 5.9% while his career average is 4.8%. More importantly, the Lions lost Ben Johnson to the Chicago Bears. Goff averaged 267.5 passing yards and 1.9 touchdowns per game over the past three years with Johnson calling the plays. By comparison, he averaged 231.8 passing yards and 1.4 touchdowns per game in his lone season in Detroit without Johnson.

More importantly, thanks to an elite offensive line, Goff wasn’t overly pressured last year. According to Fantasy Points Data, his 26.7% pressure rate and his -4.1% pressure rate over expectation were both the eighth-lowest among quarterbacks with at least 200 dropbacks. Unfortunately, Goff will play behind a rebuilt offensive line in 2025. The Lions lost Kevin Zeitler in free agency and Frank Ragnow to retirement this offseason. Second-round rookie Tate Ratledge and second-year sixth-round pick Christian Mahogany will take over as starters.

-Mike Fanelli

Justin Fields (QB – NYJ)

Justin Fields‘ fantasy value has always come from his legs, rushing for over 2,500 yards throughout his four-year career. Coincidentally, 2,500 is also about the total of his career high for passing yards in a season, when he threw for 2,562 in 2023. He’s never averaged more than 200 passing yards per game and has just 45 passing touchdowns in four seasons. Clips from training camp didn’t help matters, and now people are remembering why Fields is on his third team in three years.

-Michael Moore

Drake Maye (QB – NE)

Drake Maye started 12 games as a rookie. But if we exclude Week 18, when he only played three snaps before being pulled, Maye averaged 4.7 carries and 37.2 rushing yards per game. Over a full season, that would project to 632 rushing yards. I think Maye could best those numbers.

As a redshirt freshman at North Carolina, Maye had 698 rushing yards in 14 games — and remember that college quarterbacks have sack yardage deducted from their rushing yardage. Maye lost about 200 yards in sacks that year, so he was really closer to 850 rushing yards.

Also, Drake Maye had two touchdown runs last season. In his two seasons as a college starter, he had 16 touchdown runs in 26 games.

Maye was also competent as a passer last year, even though his offensive line and pass catchers were trash — a 67.2% completion rate and 6.7 yards per attempt. Those are solid numbers for a 22-year-old rookie with a terrible supporting cast. The Patriots still don’t have a great supporting cast for Maye by any means, but they have at least incrementally improved their pass-catching corps and offensive line.

-Pat Fitzmaurice

Patrick Mahomes (QB – KC)

Patrick Mahomes hasn’t been a top-six fantasy quarterback in fantasy points per game since 2022. Over the past two seasons, his passing prowess has suffered with 6.8 and 7.0 yards per attempt, and back-to-back finishes with fewer than 30 passing touchdowns and a 4.5% passing touchdown rate. His rushing production is a nice added value bump at this point that we should expect.

Mahomes has finished inside the top 12 of quarterbacks in rushing yards in each of the past five seasons (12th, 7th, 9th, 6th, 10th). We know that Kansas City will pass a ton. That is a given at this point, as they have ranked in the top three in neutral passing rate in each of the last four seasons. The worry for Mahomes has been that he has quietly struggled as a passer over the last two seasons.

Last year, among 40 qualifying quarterbacks, he ranked 29th in highly accurate throw rate and 19th in completion percentage over expectation (CPOE). His shortcomings as a deep passer have plagued him for the last two seasons, as he has been in the bottom 10 in CPOE and in the top 10 in off-target rate with deep passes, per Fantasy Points Data. Mahomes will have the volume and rushing equity to finish as a QB1 again this year, but unless his passing skills return to a top-shelf level, it’s tough to consider him as anything more than a low-end QB1.

-Derek Brown