Fantasy Football Rankings & Tiers: Quarterbacks (Week 1)

Fantasy football expert Pat Fitzmaurice shares all of his Week 1 rankings and tiers in his weekly article. Below you can find his Week 1 fantasy football rankings, tiers, and start/sit lineup advice for Quarterbacks.

Fantasy Football Rankings, Tiers & Start/Sit Lineup Advice: Quarterbacks

Quarterbacks Rankings & Tiers

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Fantasy Football Start/Sit Lineup Advice: Quarterbacks

With quarterback whisperer Liam Coen now overseeing the Jaguars’ offense and promising rookie WR/CB Travis Hunter arriving in Jacksonville, there’s reason to be optimistic about Jags QB Trevor Lawrence. Lawrence opens with a delicious home matchup against the Panthers, who allowed the third-most fantasy points to quarterbacks last year, yielding 20.7 QB fantasy points per game. Carolina gave up a league-high 35 touchdown passes last season, and its opponent passer rating of 105.4 was the worst in the league. Lawrence is a top-10 fantasy quarterback for Week 1.

I’m fading Jordan Love this week. The Packers’ WR situation is murky. Rookie WR Matthew Golden is exciting, but he obviously hasn’t tasted NFL regular-season action yet. Wideout Jayden Reed is playing with a Jones fracture in his foot. Romeo Doubs and Dontayvion Wicks… woof. Love faces a Detroit defense that has a tough secondary, and edge rusher extraordinaire Aidan Hutchinson is back to terrorize quarterbacks after missing most of the 2024 season with a broken leg. Also, Love didn’t play especially well against the Lions last season, scoring 11.9 and 14.5 fantasy points in his two starts against Detroit, with only one touchdown pass.

The FantasyPros expert consensus rankings (ECR) have QB Justin Herbert ranked QB17 this week. But Herbert could be a sneaky start because he always seems to bring his A-game against the Chiefs. In nine career starts against Kansas City, Herbert has averaged 266 passing yards and two touchdown passes per game. He’s also run for three touchdowns against the Chiefs, and he’s averaged 7.9 yards per pass attempt against them.