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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

QB Tiers and Draft Strategy

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Ratcliffe breaks down his quarterback tiers for 2021 fantasy football and gives you his draft strategy at the position in both 1QB and 2QB/superflex leagues. He kicks things off with his elite tier and tells you why he won't be drafting any of the top names this year. Jeff then tells you where to target the top 10 options in the middle rounds. Next, he breaks down his safe and upside approach in the late rounds of drafts and tells you how to execute this strategy to perfection. Jeff also tells you his top upside targets in this year's drafts. Jeff wraps things up by discussing his approach for your third quarterback in 2QB and superflex leagues.

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0:00.0

What is up? It's the rant. My name is Jeff Radcliffe and I just Thursday July 22nd. Man oh man, I told you

0:23.0

freaking July every year every stinking year this month absolutely rips by but August is

0:30.8

staring us in the face and the first teams will be in training camp today next week everybody

0:36.4

else everybody will be in training camp so good times indeed so with fantasy drafts on the horizon

0:44.8

we got to talk about our tears over the next four podcasts I'll break down tears by position for

0:51.5

you and in the process I'll talk about my strategy at each position I don't want one strategy I

0:57.2

think that's very very important to note if you go into a draft with just one strategy your opponents

1:02.2

are going to smoke you literally roll you up into a big fat joint and smoke you they will

1:11.7

you don't want that to happen and remember it's about your opponents too so many people go into

1:16.8

fantasy football drafts and just focus on their teams they don't pay attention with their opponents

1:21.2

are doing and their opponents smoke them so remember to pay attention to what your opponents are

1:26.4

doing but these tears will be a key part of the process for us here so we're going to start with

1:32.5

quarterbacks on the show today and we do have an elite tear of quarterbacks for me that top tier

1:39.2

is Patrick Mahomes Josh Allen and Kyler Murray now I do think it is important to note that

1:45.1

you know a lot of people will use rankings at their fantasy football drafts I think this is a

1:49.8

mistake rankings are very rigid don't show you context don't show you differentiation between

1:56.1

different players or similarities between different players and we'll often lead to people

2:02.3

making some major mistakes so I wouldn't recommend it I would recommend going in with tears

2:08.2

and I will tell you this because I have Mahomes Allen and Murray in this elite tear that means I'm

2:13.2

not going to have many fantasy football drafts it's unfortunate but I'm not going to have

2:18.0

many they're going to go two early in one quarterback leagues Mahomes will go in the second round

2:23.1

very likely in your home leagues Allen and Murray probably third round guys I just think it's

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