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Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Draft Guide: Quarterbacks — targets, busts and sleepers

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Yahoo Sports

Football, Nfl, Sports News, News, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.7737 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Yahoo Sports Fantasy Football Forecast! Yahoo’s Scott Pianowski and 4for4Football’s T.J. Hernandez are here to talk about all things quarterbacks: the targets, the sleepers and, of course, the busts.[Create or join a 2020 Yahoo Fantasy Football League for free today] Here’s the plan for this week: every day, we’re dedicating an episode on draft strategy for the big four positions in fantasy football, quarterbacks, running backs, receivers and tight ends.In today’s episode, Scott Pianowski and T.J. Hernandez discuss their approach for quarterbacks. The consensus strategy when it came fo quarterbacks for a long time was no matter what you do, always, always, always wait on drafting a quarterback. Is that how we should handle quarterbacks this year? Scott and T.J. take a look at the entire quarterback draft board and share their advice on how to handle the position in 2020.Tier 1: Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson (06:25)Tier 2: Dak Prescott, Russell Wilson, Kyler Murray (09:55)Tier 3: Deshaun Watson, Josh Allen, Matt Ryan (13:55)Tier 4: Drew Brees, Carson Wentz, Matt Stafford, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers (22:00)Tier 5: Daniel Jones, Ben Roethlisberger, Cam Newton, Baker Mayfield (28:15)Tier 6: Ryan Tannehill, Jared Goff, Jimmy Garoppolo, Joe Burrow. Gardner Minshew (34:10)Follow Scott: @Scott_PianowskiCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Welcome, everyone. Welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast. It's a new name. It's the same Yahoo! Fantasy Football Analysis that you love. I'm Scott Pianowski, one of five Yahoo hosts who've been steering you through the season. We're going to have a bunch of different guests from the industry in August. And today we're going to talk quarterbacks.

0:22.0

It's actually positional preview week at Yahoo.

0:24.9

And I got the quarterbacks, running backs, receivers, and tight ends will follow later in the week.

0:29.5

And we are lucky to have T.J. Hernandez, the DFS director at 4 for 4 football, one of the sharpest minds in the fantasy industry.

0:38.1

And you can follow him on Twitter at T.J. Hernandez.

0:40.3

We're going to pick his brain today about all things quarterback.

0:43.1

Mr. Hernandez, how are you?

0:44.8

Scott, what's up, buddy?

0:45.7

Thanks for having me.

0:46.8

Excited to be on.

0:47.9

You and I, I probably talk to you as much as anybody on Twitter.

0:50.8

And this is the first time we've officially connected somehow.

0:53.6

So I'm pretty stoked

0:54.5

about this one. Yeah, I've been looking forward to this conversation for a while. And what

0:59.5

better, better timing than to get people ready for their drafts, right in the teeth, the draft season.

1:05.8

As you know, you can draft, set up your league, draft on Yahoo! Fantasy, that's open for business.

1:10.7

So jump in there

1:11.8

get a bunch of leagues and let's have some fun this year today we're talking about quarterback

1:16.4

and before we go through all sorts of things our picks our pans our targets all sorts of

1:21.9

different things i always tell people when they get into fantasy football like and they say you know

1:27.4

they're new to it.

1:28.2

And they say, oh, I need tips. You know, what's going on here? And I say, well, one of the first things you have to reconcile is that in the real NFL, the quarterback is everything.

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