If you’re in a dynasty league, at what point do you give up on older quarterbacks like Eli Manning, Alex Smith and Joe Flacco? They are currently starters, but it looks safe to say that none of them will ever be a top-15 quarterback in another season.

Ryan Fitzpatrick is even harder to grade. I don’t think he has any significant value for 2019 and beyond, but he’s at least a contender to put up top-5 numbers during the second half of this season, and that’s worth something.

With the declining old veterans, I think it makes sense at this point to slot them behind a number of young quarterbacks that won’t necessarily ever amount to anything, but at least have some chance of developing into something. I’ve got Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen and Teddy Bridgewater, for example, ahead of all of the stodgy old vets. With Jackson and Allen, neither looks anything like an NFL passer yet, but both are really good runners. With Jackson in particular, I think he could have a season where he puts up bottom-5 passing numbers but runs for enough yards and touchdowns to maybe finish with top-10 overall numbers. Most fantasy scoring systems tend to be biased in favor of rushing production.

With Bridgewater, he looked kind of decent with the Jets in the preseason. Drew Brees is 39, and if he were to retire, Bridgewater might be there to step in and take over one of the league’s best offenses.

My current top 50 quarterbacks for dynasty leagues appears below. Assumes standard scoring, and assumes teams are allowed to keep players indefinitely. Rookies tagged with black dots.

I hit one of these each weekend. I posted wide receivers last week. Coming up next week will be running backs.

DYNASTY RANKINGS (QB)
RkTeamPlayerAge
1.KCPatrick Mahomes23
2.PHICarson Wentz25
3.LARJared Goff24
4.GBAaron Rodgers34
5.INDAndrew Luck29
6.HOUDeshaun Watson23
7.MINKirk Cousins30
8.SEARussell Wilson29
9.CARCam Newton29
10.LACPhilip Rivers36
11.NODrew Brees39
12.PITBen Roethlisberger36
13.NETom Brady41
14.ATLMatt Ryan33
15.CLE• Baker Mayfield23
16.SFJimmy Garoppolo27
17.CINAndy Dalton31
18.DETMatthew Stafford30
19.ARI• Josh Rosen21
20.CHIMitchell Trubisky24
21.NYJ• Sam Darnold21
22.TENMarcus Mariota25
23.TBRyan Fitzpatrick35
24.BAL• Lamar Jackson21
25.BUF• Josh Allen22
26.OAKDerek Carr27
27.NOTeddy Bridgewater26
28.DALDak Prescott25
29.TBJameis Winston24
30.BALJoe Flacco33
31.WASAlex Smith34
32.JACBlake Bortles26
33.NYGEli Manning37
34.DENCase Keenum30
35.MIARyan Tannehill30
36.SFNick Mullens23
37.CLETyrod Taylor29
38.MIABrock Osweiler27
39.PHINick Foles29
40.INDJacoby Brissett25
41.PITJoshua Dobbs23
42.SFC.J. Beathard24
43.GBDeShone Kizer22
44.NOTaysom Hill28
45.NYG• Kyle Lauletta23
46.JACCody Kessler25
47.SEABrett Hundley25
48.WASColt McCoy32
49.OAKAJ McCarron28
50.MINTrevor Siemian26

—Ian Allan