We still need to think about player production relative to other players at their position. That’s not an argument in favor of taking a bottom-tier quarterback like Carr over an elite back or receiver. In half-PPR leagues, the only backs and receivers to outscore him on a per-game basis were Christian McCaffrey, Derrick Henry, Dalvin Cook, Aaron Jones, Ezekiel Elliott, Saquon Barkley, Austin Ekeler and Michael Thomas. Derek Carr was the QB26 in points per game last year in standard-scoring leagues. You want to start two every week, a fact I can prove with some low-hanging fruit. Quarterback resources are distressingly finite in SuperFlex leagues. Fully 20 percent of the first 30 picks in a typical SuperFlex draft will be quarterbacks, and that’s when anyone who doesn’t already have a quarterback will start to get tense. No matter what you do, Prescott, Wilson, Murray and Watson will likely be Top 30 picks, with at least two going inside the Top 20. No matter what you do, Mahomes and Jackson are going to be first-round picks, likely both off the board within the first five or six selections. Not the theoretical room we’re using for illustrative effect, but the draft room. And even though you passed on some of the highest-end fixtures while spending lavishly on your foundation, you can still fill in the rest of your home with glamour for one key reason. If your elite quarterbacks are the foundation of your house, then the backs and receivers you put around them are the warm, fancy rooms that help turn it into a home. You’re still going to need strong production from your backs and receivers around those two elite quarterbacks. SuperFlex leagues may prize quarterbacks, but they can’t be won on arms alone. The argument for going QB-QB rests on the foundation that starting two of Mahomes, Jackson, Prescott, Wilson and Murray every week will give you a decided starting-point advantage, but it can’t end there. If you can’t get two of the Top 5 (or six, if you’re still in on Watson), QB-QB is not for you.
Clearly, everyone in that group is a noticeable step, if not a noticeable 10 steps, down from our top-two tiers. After they’re off the board, there’s a noticeable drop to the next tier of quarterbacks, which is led by Matt Ryan, Carson Wentz and Josh Allen, and could also include the likes of Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers, Matthew Stafford, Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger, Daniel Jones, Cam Newton and Baker Mayfield, depending on who you ask. I think the loss of DeAndre Hopkins knocks Watson down a tier, but it’s a perfectly fair and valid point of view to place him in Tier 2.
These quarterbacks populate the top-two tiers, with many people also including Deshaun Watson. The quarterback position at large is more important in SuperFlex leagues than in traditional one-QB formats, but there are still tiers within the position. The reasoning for that is relatively simple. If I can get two from the quintet of Mahomes, Jackson, Prescott, Wilson and Murray, I want to employ this strategy. I only want to go QB-QB if I can get two of my, and, seemingly, the entire industry’s, Top 5 quarterbacks. The subordinate clause “where possible” in the sentence above is doing a lot of work. The subsequent 20 rounds led me to the following conclusion…Ī QB-QB start in SuperFlex drafts this season, where possible, is more viable than ever. I couldn’t be sure how my draft would play out from there, but my preconceived strategy was in motion.
My plan came to fruition, with Prescott available to me in the first round, and Wilson still on the board when my pick rolled back around in the second. I knew Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson would be off the board by the ninth pick, and SFBX scoring rewards quarterback efficiency - quarterbacks get six points for passing touchdowns and half a point for completions, but lose four points for interceptions, two more for pick-sixes, one point for every incompletion, and one point for every sack taken - which pushed Kyler Murray behind Prescott and Wilson to QB5 in my rankings. Specifically, I was targeting Dak Prescott and Russell Wilson. If possible, I would use my first- and second-round picks to get two of my Top 5 quarterbacks. I had the ninth pick in my league, and I seized my overarching strategy almost instantly.
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