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2026 Fantasy QB Rankings

The top 32 QBs for 2026 half-PPR leagues, ranked by projected fantasy points. Each projection includes a split-conformal range targeting 80% marginal coverage, calibrated on held-out 2025 rows. A target range is not a guarantee for an individual player.

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These rankings order 2026 QBs by OverADP's position-specific point model, then show current ADP and uncertainty beside every player. Use the projection as an independent estimate, the range as risk context, and ADP as market price—not as three interchangeable rankings.

📊 Model: position-specific CatBoost + split CQR 🎯 Point-model tests: 2024 and 2025 📅 Scoring: half-PPR 🔄 Updated: August 27, 2026

Quarterback scoring has a wider absolute error scale than the other positions, so the model is trained and reported separately. Across the 2024-2025 test folds, QB posted 57.15 MAE and 0.61 R² over 134 player-season predictions.

Rank Player Team Proj Pts 80% CI ADP Risk
QB1 Josh Allen BUF 280.1 159–402 33 LOW
QB2 Baker Mayfield TB 279.2 164–394 134 LOW
QB3 Jared Goff DET 273.8 162–386 100 LOW
QB4 Sam Darnold SEA 264.0 155–373 149 LOW
QB5 Jalen Hurts PHI 263.7 142–386 80 LOW
QB6 Bo Nix DEN 262.7 188–337 112 LOW
QB7 Caleb Williams CHI 255.5 160–351 92 LOW
QB8 Lamar Jackson BAL 255.0 161–349 55 LOW
QB9 Justin Herbert LAC 252.4 142–362 108 LOW
QB10 Joe Burrow CIN 251.9 132–372 57 LOW
QB11 Matthew Stafford LA 244.0 178–310 75 LOW
QB12 Patrick Mahomes KC 243.2 119–368 102 MED
QB13 Aaron Rodgers PIT 232.7 136–329 LOW
QB14 Trevor Lawrence JAX 230.7 151–310 92 LOW
QB15 Jordan Love GB 227.9 124–332 153 LOW
QB16 Drake Maye NE 221.6 116–327 51 LOW
QB17 Jaxson Dart NYG 213.5 75–352 120 MED
QB18 Brock Purdy SF 211.9 110–313 90 LOW
QB19 Bryce Young CAR 199.9 93–306 MED
QB20 Fernando Mendoza LV 198.4 0–482 HIGH
QB21 C.J. Stroud HOU 195.8 94–297 162 MED
QB22 Tua Tagovailoa ATL 193.7 72–315 MED
QB23 Dak Prescott DAL 192.2 98–287 66 MED
QB24 Geno Smith NYJ 191.7 97–287 MED
QB25 Jayden Daniels WAS 191.2 92–290 72 MED
QB26 Cam Ward TEN 181.8 66–298 165 MED
QB27 Tyler Shough NO 171.4 30–313 139 MED
QB28 Deshaun Watson CLE 166.7 21–312 MED
QB29 Jacoby Brissett ARI 153.0 40–266 MED
QB30 Malik Willis MIA 142.5 38–247 165 MED
QB31 Justin Fields KC 112.8 39–186 MED
QB32 Sam Howell DAL 103.3 28–178 MED

How to read this table

Proj Pts: half-PPR fantasy points the point model estimates over the full 2026 season. 80% CI: a split-conformal range with an 80% marginal-coverage target, calibrated on 2025 rows. A wide range means more uncertainty. ADP: current half-PPR average draft position. Risk: relative interval width bucketed within position.

How the results were measured

The point model was trained only on earlier seasons and evaluated on the next season. The published metrics aggregate every eligible player row from the 2024 and 2025 test folds. An exact-cohort ADP-only check is directionally positive, but we withhold a market-beating percentage because the 2025 input is a preseason-rank proxy rather than true ADP.

The biggest gaps between model and ADP are surfaced on our Top Sleepers and Top Busts pages. The full War Room shows every player with filtering, VBD, scarcity, and draft-tracking.

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