A pretty crappy week for the Mannings. Eli Manning gives away the Sunday night game with poor clock management. If Rashad Jennings is to be believed, Manning also instructed him not to score a rushing touchdown on the previous two plays. And elder Manning, earlier in the day, looked like a guy who’s right at the end of his career, with no mobility and a rapidly declining arm.
So where do you take either in a fantasy league right now? Especially one of the dynasty format?
With Peyton Manning, the very top end is that he’s got maybe this year left, and that he might have another 30-touchdown season left in him?
Would you rather have that? Or would you rather have, behind curtain #2, the possibility that Jameis Winston figures things out and cranks out a bunch of good years?
And how about Marcus Mariota. Just one game, but he sure looked phenomenal in his first game. At Oregon, he was mostly throwing to wide-open targets, but he made at least three downfield-type throws against the Bucs that were very much of the NFL vintage.
For now, I’m slotting Mariota ahead of some of the mid-aged quarterbacks who have been good but who I’m not truly sold on – Newton, Flacco, Stafford and Tannehill.
Luck, Rodgers and Ryan, I believe, are the easy first three.
QUARTERBACKS - DYNASTY RANKINGS | |||
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Rk | Team | Player | Age |
1. | IND | Andrew Luck | 26 |
2. | GB | Aaron Rodgers | 31 |
3. | ATL | Matt Ryan | 30 |
4. | SEA | Russell Wilson | 26 |
5. | PIT | Ben Roethlisberger | 33 |
6. | TEN | • Marcus Mariota | 21 |
7. | CAR | Cam Newton | 26 |
8. | DET | Matthew Stafford | 27 |
9. | MIA | Ryan Tannehill | 27 |
10. | BAL | Joe Flacco | 30 |
11. | NYG | Eli Manning | 34 |
12. | SD | Philip Rivers | 33 |
13. | NO | Drew Brees | 36 |
14. | NE | Tom Brady | 38 |
15. | DAL | Tony Romo | 35 |
16. | PHI | Sam Bradford | 27 |
17. | MIN | Teddy Bridgewater | 22 |
18. | JAC | Blake Bortles | 23 |
19. | TB | • Jameis Winston | 21 |
20. | DEN | Peyton Manning | 39 |
21. | OAK | Derek Carr | 24 |
22. | BUF | Tyrod Taylor | 26 |
23. | KC | Alex Smith | 31 |
24. | ARI | Carson Palmer | 35 |
25. | SF | Colin Kaepernick | 27 |
26. | CIN | Andy Dalton | 27 |
27. | STL | Nick Foles | 26 |
28. | CHI | Jay Cutler | 32 |
29. | NYJ | Ryan Fitzpatrick | 32 |
30. | WAS | Kirk Cousins | 27 |
31. | HOU | Ryan Mallett | 27 |
32. | CLE | Johnny Manziel | 22 |
33. | DEN | Brock Osweiler | 24 |
34. | PHI | Mark Sanchez | 28 |
35. | CLE | Josh McCown | 36 |
36. | TEN | Zach Mettenberger | 24 |
37. | PIT | Michael Vick | 35 |
38. | KC | Chase Daniel | 28 |
39. | CHI | Jimmy Clausen | 27 |
40. | NE | Jimmy Garoppolo | 23 |
—Ian Allan