Fantasy Football QB Rankings 2026: Josh Allen Stands Alone in Tier 1, Lamar Jackson Headlines Loaded Tier 2

Training camps are about to open across the league, and that means fantasy football drafts are right around the corner. NFL.com senior editor Dan Parr released his 2026 fantasy quarterback rankings on Monday, breaking all 32 starting-caliber QBs into six tiers ahead of the season — and one name sits by himself at the top.

Josh Allen Gets His Own Tier

Parr put Josh Allen in a class of one. The Buffalo Bills quarterback is the only player to finish among the top three fantasy quarterbacks in points per game in each of the last five seasons, and he hasn’t missed a start in that stretch, according to NFL.com.

Buffalo added DJ Moore to a receiving corps that still isn’t considered elite on paper. Doesn’t matter. Allen was the fantasy QB1 last season with a similar supporting cast, and Parr isn’t betting against him doing it again.

Tier 2: Boom-or-Bust Talent Behind Allen

Lamar Jackson headlines the six-man second tier, alongside Drake Maye, Joe Burrow, Caleb Williams, Jalen Hurts and Jayden Daniels. Jackson is coming off an injury-hit year and now has a new head coach and offensive coordinator in Baltimore, which Parr flags as real downside risk even as he stays bullish on the two-time MVP’s ceiling.

Maye gets a vote of confidence entering Year 3 in New England, where the Patriots added A.J. Brown and Romeo Doubs this offseason. Only Allen outscored Maye among quarterbacks in 2025.

Burrow’s tier placement comes with a caveat: when healthy, he’s a top-five fantasy QB, but Cincinnati has seen that version of him only once in the past three seasons. Williams, meanwhile, tied for eighth in points per game last season and enters Year 2 in Ben Johnson’s offense — the kind of setup Parr expects to produce a leap forward.

Hurts and Daniels round out the tier as the two Parr considers hardest to project. Both are coming off down years by their own standard and are adjusting to new-look offenses, though NFL.com notes Hurts has finished among the top seven fantasy QBs in each of the last five seasons.

Where the Rest of the League Lands

Tier 3 stretches from Dak Prescott at No. 8 down to Kyler Murray at No. 17, and it’s where injury questions start piling up. Patrick Mahomes checks in at 14th, with Parr playing it conservative given the uncertainty around his recovery timeline from a torn ACL. Jaxson Dart lands at 13th for the Giants, with the receiving corps’ outlook tied partly to Malik Nabers‘ recovery — Giants GM Joe Schoen has said he still expects Nabers to be ready for Week 1.

Matthew Stafford, the reigning MVP, ranks 12th — a placement Parr explains by noting last season was the only time since 2021 that Stafford has finished among the top 10 fantasy quarterbacks, and he’s entering his age-38 season.

The Lower Tiers: Waiver-Wire Warnings

Tier 4 opens with Jordan Love, whose outlook Parr ties partly to Josh Jacobs‘ status in Green Bay. Baker Mayfield gets a caution flag too — he averaged 21 fantasy points per game through Week 6 last season before cratering to 14.2 the rest of the way, per NFL.com‘s scoring data, sourced from FantasyPros.

At the bottom, Parr places Aaron Rodgers in Tier 5 for what the 42-year-old has already announced will be his final NFL season, while Tier 6 is reserved for quarterbacks Parr views as having only a tenuous grip on their starting jobs — including Deshaun Watson, who hasn’t taken a regular-season snap since October 2024 and is competing with Shedeur Sanders in Cleveland.

Parr’s running back, wide receiver and tight end tiers are expected to follow as part of the same fantasy prep series ahead of the 2026 season.