Week 9 Fantasy Football QB Rankings 2025

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  • By Patrick Leary

    Last Updated on October 30, 2025 9:13 am by Jon Mosales | Published: October 30, 2025

    At the top of this week’s rankings, we have a showdown between the two very best gunslingers in the game today. At the bottom of this week’s rankings, we have more semi-injured quarterbacks in one week than I can remember.

    Let’s go through the rankings for Week 9 as the fantasy season kicks into high gear.

    Rank Player Team Opponent Notes
    1 Patrick Mahomes KC BUF Primetime matchup between the two best QBs we have should be high-scoring for both guys.
    2 Josh Allen BUF KC While Allen is still elite, Mahomes has been the clear top guy in points per game.
    3 Lamar Jackson BAL MIA Jackson is going to play finally, and he still is QB2 in points per game. Do not exercise caution.
    4 Drake Maye NE ATL Time to lock Maye into the top five at QB. He’s the QB2 on the year and just crushed a brutal matchup.
    5 Daniel Jones IND PIT This wide open Pittsburgh defense should make things easy for a locked in Danny Dimes. The Colts are an absolute wagon on offense.
    6 Dak Prescott DAL ARI This bad Cardinals team is a good bounce back spot for Dak after he swooned in Denver.
    7 Justin Herbert LAC TEN Joe Alt’s return put a charge in Herbert and this passing game. He’s firing on all cylinders and the Titans stink.
    8 Caleb Williams CHI CIN This should be a great matchup for Williams. The Bears need to convert through the air more in the redzone to tap into his upside.
    9 Kyler Murray ARI DAL You couldn’t script a better matchup for Murray to return from injury. If he plays, he’s a must start.
    10 Jaxson Dart NYG SF This Giants offense must run through Dart now, and his rushing upside and this flagging Niners defense could form a formiddable pairing.
    11 Jordan Love GB CAR Love dominated the Steelers last week, and the Panthers shouldn’t give him much trouble. If Tucker Kraft keeps outplaying Josh Jacobs, Love will return value.
    12 Matthew Stafford LAR NO Stafford gets Puka Nacua back this week, and this soft matchup should make him a palatable play despite the lack of rushing upside.
    13 Jared Goff DET MIN Minnesota has been a tougher matchup in the past, but they haven’t had the same bite in recent weeks with the team struggling overall. Goff is usually reliable at home.
    14 Bo Nix DEN HOU Nix has been on a scoring bonanza, but this Houston defense is the very worst matchup on the board, and they absolutely neutralized the Niners last week.
    15 Jayden Daniels WAS SEA What will Daniels look like off yet another injury? He also won’t have his best weapon Terry McLaurin and the Seahawks defense is basically at full strength. Need to see some proof of concept here.
    16 Sam Darnold SEA WAS Darnold is an interesting stream here. He doesn’t have oodles of upside in the Seahawks’ low-volume attack, but he should definitely have a few big passes in this one.
    17 Aaron Rodgers PIT IND Rodgers continues a solid and unlikely season as a fringe QB1. The Colts will likely cause him to throw the ball a lot as well.
    18 Trevor Lawrence JAC LVR It’s hard to know what Lawrence will look like week to week, but the Raiders are quite bad, so he will have plenty of scoring chances this week, at least.
    19 Geno Smith LVR JAC This is where stuff starts to get gross. Is Jacksonville vulnerable enough for the struggling Smith to enter the circle of trust? Probablty not.
    20 C.J. Stroud HOU DEN I wouldn’t want to play a QB against Denver right now, especially not Houston’s QB, since these defenses will grind this game down.
    21 Michael Penix ATL NE We’ve entered the land of injured QBs. Penix is the least injured with the best weapons, I suppose?
    22 J.J. McCarthy MIN DET Do you want to start a QB who has been so soft benched for more than a month that his coach played a bad veteran backup with an injured shoulder for the last two weeks? Me neither.
    23 Joe Flacco CIN CHI Flacco would be a few spots higher here if healthy, but a throwing shoulder sprain for a QB who can’t run is a bad deal I want no part of.
    24 Brock Purdy SF NYG I don’t feel confident Purdy is starting, and I don’t feel confident in him returning against this defensive line, so I’m out here.
    25 Bryce Young CAR GB Apparently, Young’s ankle sprain is ahead of schedule, meaning the Panthers are planning to rush him back against Micah Parsons. Fun!
    26 Tua Tagovailoa MIA BAL Tua went off last week, but that hasn’t convinced me of anything against the suddenly stout Ravens defense. I’m still all the way out.
    27 Cam Ward TEN LAC Ward is one of the worst fantasy QBs ever. He’s one of 11 QBs to start eight games so far, and he’s the QB31.
    28 Tyler Shough NO LAR First NFL start against the Rams is an automatic no.
    29* Jacoby Brissett ARI DAL If Murray doesn’t make it back against the Cowboys, Brissett would be a great streaming option against by far the best QB matchup. He’d be up around Nix and Daniels.
    30* Mac Jones SF NYG I don’t have any interest in playing Jones if he starts. He’d swap places with Purdy.
    31* Andy Dalton CAR GB Dalton looks awful. He’d be between Tua and Ward for me.
    32* Jake Browning CIN CHI Browning would be my very last ranked QB if he starts.
    33* Kirk Cousins ATL NE If Cousins draws a second consecutive start, he’d either be between Ward and Tua if Drake London plays or last if London doesn’t play.
    October 30, 2025, 9:13 am