Top 5 Quarterbacks For 2023: Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts, Josh Allen, and more! (06/26 Fantasy Football podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
CBS Sports, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, NFL, Rookies, NFL Rookies
4.9 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Adam Aizer and Heath Cummings discuss top-5 quarterbacks for the 2023 season, including Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts, Josh Allen, and more!
You can also follow the full-length Fantasy Football Today podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-podcast/id261735167
Get 20% off Fantasy Football Today merch: https://store.cbssports.com/collections/fantasy-football-today%20?utm_source=podcast-apple-com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=buy-our-merch&utm_content=fantasy-football-collection
Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @ctowerscbs.
You can listen to Fantasy Football Today in 5 on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today in 5 podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today in 5 podcast."
Watch FFT on YouTube
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Top five quarterbacks in 2023 right now on fantasy football today in five. |
| 0:12.1 | What's going on, everybody? |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Adam Azer filling in for Chris Towers. |
| 0:15.5 | I've got Heath Cummings here. |
| 0:16.4 | I just told Heath, Heath, why don't you just give us your quarterback rankings one through five? |
| 0:41.6 | But guess what? We already did that. We did that on the main show on Sunday night. So how about I give you my one through five and you critique? Well, I was going to say, aren't you normally on the Monday FFT and five, aren't I filling in for Chris Towers? Shouldn't I be asking you questions? Aren't you always here? You could be Chris. Go ahead. Adam, who are your top five quarterbacks for 2023? Would you like five through one or one through five? Definitely start with five. Okay, five is going to be |
| 0:47.1 | Justin Fields, who was averaging about a hundred rushing yards per game at his best in the last nine |
| 0:53.2 | games of the season when he was, |
| 0:54.7 | I think a top three or four quarterback. I do like him better than Lamar Jackson, who is not |
| 0:59.6 | going to make my cut. I don't really know why. I just think that I've seen Lamar Jackson be |
| 1:06.0 | good, but not amazing for three straight years. I'd like to see a little bit more. So I think we |
| 1:10.4 | can get that from Justin Fields. Yeah, I thought it was really interesting when the host of fantasy football today, not fantasy football today in five, made the point of it's really hard to make the case for Justin Fields over Lamar Jackson. And you did a really poor job there. Like we're talking about the three years that Lamar Jackson has been just okay, not great. I believe each of those three years, he averaged more fantasy points per game than Justin Fields did last year. He did, but he didn't average more fantasy points per game than Justin Fields did in the second half of the season, so I'd like to see Fields continue. I do wonder who averaged more points, Lamar Jackson in the first half of last year or Justin Fields in the second half. Probably Justin Fields in all seriousness. But it's probably close because Jackson had two games where he was over 40 points. But here's the other thing about Jackson. I don't know what the new system is going to do for Lamar Jackson. This guy is someone who had a system tailor made for him by Greg Roman. and now it's a brand new system where they're going to ask him to be more of a passer. And I'm not so sure that's going to work immediately. There could be a growing period and some growing pains for Lamar Jackson. So that's why he's six and Fields is five. And Heath Joe Burrow is four for me. Unlike Justin Fields, who has everything set up and we know exactly how things are going to go for him. |
| 2:20.0 | No growing pains for Justin Fields. |
| 2:21.7 | Definitely no growing pains for Joe Burrow, who is number four ahead of both of the quarterbacks who have more upside than him. |
| 2:28.5 | Is this all about floor? |
| 2:30.2 | Are you factoring in two quarterback leagues? |
| 2:32.3 | Do people draft seven quarterbacks in leagues that you draft so you can't stream? Why is Joe Burrow ahead of these two riding quarterbacks? Well, if you look at what Joe Burrow did with Jamar, Chase, and T. Higgins, both of them missed time. You know, Higgins didn't miss that many games, but he had three games where he barely played. And Chase missed, I think, five games. But when those two guys were both on the field, |
| 2:51.7 | he was a close fourth in points per game behind those top three. |
| 2:56.8 | He was not really a tier behind the big three. |
| 3:00.1 | Right. |
| 3:00.8 | Yeah. |
| 3:01.1 | I think you make a good point about what Joe Burrow did in the games that he was completely |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CBS Sports, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, NFL, Rookies, NFL Rookies, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of CBS Sports, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, NFL, Rookies, NFL Rookies and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

