Week 8 Quarterback Results

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Byes: Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, Baltimore Ravens, Houston Texans

The Actual Rankings are based my scoring primer. It basically follows ESPNs standard scoring but uses fractional points and slightly devalues passing touchdowns.

Matthew Stafford had the best fantasy week with 352 yards and 3 touchdowns. He’s averaging 18 fantasy points per game. The takeaway is Stafford will be a top 10 quarterback the rest of the year. However, if his supporting cast continues to step up (like they did against the Seahwaks) he can be a top 5-6 quarterback. Another food for thought, how good could this offense be if they had any semblance of a running game.

Matt Hasselbeck finished the week as the 14 fantasy quarterback, exactly where I predicted. Jake Locker appears he will be healthy for Sunday’s game against Chicago. So you can drop him because Locker should be the main man moving forward.

Jay Cutler isn’t playing well. I thought this was a great chance for Cutler to have a solid fantasy day, but he looked awful. It doesn’t help he was constantly under duress (sacked 6 times) behind an extremely suspect offensive line.

Philip Rivers stunk. His offensive line doesn’t give him a lot of time, the wide receivers can’t get open, but that doesn’t mean Rivers is not partially to blame. He missed on a few open receivers and he made poor decisions. At best, he’s a top 20 quaterback.

Josh Freeman did not perform as well as stat line (on Sunday) suggests. He benefited greatly from a 64 yard dump off (for a touchdown) to Doug Martin. If you take that away he only throws for 200 yards with 51% completion percentage. Like Rivers, he wasn’t accurate with most of his passes. I’m still not buying the hype he is a a top 15 quarterback.