Fantasy Football Week 16 Quarterback Preview: Semi-final streaming options, championship stashes, and more

If disaster struck you at the quarterback position in Week 15, you’re not alone. Patrick Mahomes and Geno Smith left with injuries. Jameis Winston and Will Levis were benched. Justin Herbert and Tua Tagovailoa, amongst others, failed to live up to expectations. If you survived and moved on, congratulations. You may just have to lower your expectations for Week 16.

In my early Week 16 projections, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Jalen Hurts, and Baker Mayfield are the only quarterbacks projected for more than 20 Fantasy points. Only eight quarterbacks are projected to score 19 Fantasy points, and only 12 are projected to score 18. One of those guys is available in more than half of leagues; he’s the star of the waiver wire section below.

For those of you in Superflex leagues, you may have questions about the replacement QBs. I don’t expect any of them to matter in one-QB leagues, but Carson Wentz and Mason Rudolph are my favorite options in deep Superflex leagues if you need them. That’s only because I assume Cooper Rush is already rostered in those leagues. Rush is coming off a three-touchdown game and faces the Tampa Bay Buccaneers; he’s a top-20 option for me in Week 16 and a good QB2 in Superflex.

Let’s get to the rest of the preview:

Fantasy Football Playoffs QB Preview

• 103.2 — Josh Allen has scored 103 Fantasy points in his last two games combined.
• 4 — Four times this season, Lamar Jackson has thrown at least four touchdown passes and zero interceptions.
• 11.6 — This will be Jared Goff’s second true outdoor game of the season. He scored 11.6 Fantasy points at Green Bay earlier this year.
• 289 — Aaron Rodgers has thrown for at least 289 yards in back-to-back starts. He didn’t do that once the first 13 weeks of the season.
• 24 — The Panthers have allowed three of the past four QBs they’ve faced to score at least 24 Fantasy points.
• 3.75% — Mason Rudolph’s sack rate is just 3.75% this season, compared to 12.35% for Will Levis.
• 17 — Carson Wentz had 17 rush attempts in his only start last year for the Rams. He scored 28.1 Fantasy points in that game.

My full set of Week 16 Fantasy football projections for every position are now available on SportsLine. You’ll find them here. Find out which of my favorite plays are projected to score higher than consensus rankings and which don’t live up to their draft hype, at least in Week 16. Projected stats for all starting running backs are available, so be sure to check out the full set of projections at SportsLine.