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2011 Fantasy Football Quarterback Rankings Outlook

The days of the ground and pound are over in the NFL, if you want to win you have to have a solid passing attack and offensive coordinators around the league are relaying even more on their quarterbacks. What this means in terms of fantasy is that there are many great options and strategies to go with when thinking about your QB spot. The elite quarterbacks have grown to six which includes Rodgers, Peyton, Brady, Rivers, Brees, and now Vick. To get one of these quarterbacks you will have to burn a top 40 pick but it could be well worth the investment. Barring injuries you can count on these six to produce for you every week.

The next sets of quarterbacks have a three time winning Super Bowl Champion, a guy returning from injury with arguably the best talent around him, a passer who threw for over 4300 yards, a few young guys will all upside. Big Ben, Romo, Schaub, Freeman, and Ryan are all very productive quarterbacks and anyone would be happy with any of these guys starting for them. Out of this bunch Matt Ryan and Freeman have slightly higher ceiling because their best days are ahead of them but also some risk to the youth factor. One great fact about Matt Ryan is he plays 12 games in a dome this season more than any other QB in 2011.

So above we discussed 11 great fantasy options but if you are in a deeper or 2 quarterback league you still have the great options. Eli Manning, Matt Stafford, Joe Flacco, and last years offensive rookie of the year, Sam Bradford could all give you great numbers. Even in the later rounds grabbing guys like Kolb or Tebow could pay off a great deal if they move into the right situations. (Orton leaving Denver and Kolb getting traded to the right team)

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What this all means is the QB position is the deepest it has been in years and there is no reason at all to reach on a quarterback. Typically, once someone take a QB the waterfall begins and people start to worry about filling their own quarterback position and might reach to ensure they get a quality one. If this happens be smart and capitalize on it. Grab the wideouts and backs that are slipping then take one or even two middle of the road QBs since the middle of the road is pretty damn good this season.

Tiers	Rank	Player	Tm	Games	Pct	Yards	Y/G	TD	Int	Rush Yds	TD
1	1	Michael Vick	PHI	12	62.6	3018	251.5	21	6	676	9
1	2	Aaron Rodgers	GB	15	65.7	3922	261.5	28	11	356	4
2	3	Philip Rivers	SD	16	66.0	4710	294.4	30	13	52	0
2	4	Tom Brady	NE	16	65.9	3900	243.8	36	4	30	1
2	5	Peyton Manning	IND	16	66.3	4700	293.8	33	17	18	0
2	6	Drew Brees	NO	16	68.1	4620	288.8	33	22	-3	0
3	7	Tony Romo	DAL	6	69.5	1605	267.5	11	7	38	0
3	8	Matt Schaub	HOU	16	63.6	4370	273.1	24	12	28	0
3	9	Ben Roethlisberger	PIT	12	61.7	3200	266.7	17	5	176	2
3	10	Matt Ryan	ATL	16	62.5	3705	231.6	28	9	122	0
3	11	Josh Freeman	TB	16	61.4	3451	215.7	25	6	364	0
4	12	Eli Manning	NYG	16	62.9	4002	250.1	31	25	70	0
4	13	Matthew Stafford	DET	3	59.4	535	178.3	6	1	11	1
4	14	Joe Flacco	BAL	16	62.6	3622	226.4	25	10	84	1
4	15	Jay Cutler	CHI	15	60.4	3274	218.3	23	16	232	1
4	16	Sam Bradford	STL	16	60.0	3512	219.5	18	15	63	1
5	17	Kevin Kolb	ARI	8	60.8	1197	149.6	7	7	68	0
5	18	Kyle Orton	DEN	13	58.8	3652	280.9	20	9	98	0
5	19	Matt Cassel	KC	15	58.2	3116	207.7	27	7	125	0
5	20	Mark Sanchez	NYJ	16	54.8	3291	205.7	17	13	105	3
5	21	Ryan Fitzpatrick	BUF	13	57.8	3000	230.8	23	15	269	0
5	22	David Garrard	JAC	14	64.5	2734	195.3	23	15	279	5
6	23	Donovan McNabb	MIN	13	58.3	3377	259.8	14	15	151	0
6	24	Colt McCoy	CLE	8	60.8	1576	197.0	6	9	136	1
6	25	Chad Henne	MIA	15	61.4	3301	220.1	15	19	52	0
6	26	Cam Newton	CAR	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
7	27	Tim Tebow	DEN	9	50.0	654	72.7	5	3	227	6
7	28	Andy Dalton	CIN	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
7	29	Alex Smith	SF	11	59.6	2370	215.5	14	10	60	0
7	30	Matt Hasselbeck	TEN	14	59.9	3001	214.4	12	17	60	3
8	31	Jason Campbell	OAK	13	59.0	2387	183.6	13	8	222	1
8	32	Christian Ponder	MIN	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
8	33	John Beck	WAS	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0

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