Week 12 QB fantasy football rankings including injury news, sleepers, more
11/20/2024 06:00 AM
Which quarterbacks will shine in Week 12 for your fantasy football teams? We'll take a look at all of them in our rankings.
Week 11 is in the books and what a week it was. Josh Allen pulled a Patrick Mahomes to beat Mahomes and the Chiefs, while the Steelers took over as the AFC North leaders after holding Lamar Jackson down yet again, despite Russell Wilson playing poorly. And how about Anthony Richardson returning from a two-game benching to beat the Jets and finish as QB4 in fantasy with two rushing touchdowns. And now we have a new contender for Rookie of the Year, as Bo Nix just went off on the Falcons for over 300 yards and four passing touchdowns. Then there's Jameis Winston, our fantasy savior, putting up 395 yards passing and two touchdowns in a big loss to Taysom Hill and the Saints. Did you ever think Jerry Jeudy, Elijah Moore, Cedric Tillman, and David Njoku would all have fantasy upside this year? Thanks Jameis!
It was a fun bunch of games, but we move on to Week 12, where we have six teams on bye! We're going to have dig deep into our bench and waiver wires this week.
Week 12 quarterback bye weeks
Josh Allen, Kirk Cousins, Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence, Derek Carr, Aaron Rodgers
Week 12 quarterback injuries/changes
Tommy DeVito, Giants
Daniel Jones has been benched, but instead of Drew Lock, the Giants are promoting Tommy DeVito to the starting job. DeVito managed some wins last year, but was awful statistically. He won't be an upgrade on Jones.
Trevor Lawrence, Jaguars
Lawrence has missed the last two games with a shoulder injury and gets a bye this week. Reports on the severity of the injury have been conflicting, but he wasn't put on I.R. and the team hopes he can return sooner than later. They sure need him, because Mac Jones has not been good.
Week 12 quarterback sleepers
Justin Herbert, Chargers vs. Ravens
The Ravens played their best defensive game in a long while last week against the Russell Wilson led Steelers. We probably can chalk that up to the Steelers and Ravens never playing a normal game and Wilson still just being average at best. This week Baltimore has to take on Justin Herbert on Monday Night Football in Los Angeles. This game should be high scoring, as the Ravens get back to playing non-Steelers teams. And we've seen Herbert slinging the ball more than we figured he would with the Harbaugh/Roman establish the run mantra.
Bo Nix, Broncos at Raiders
Nix has gone from zero passing touchdowns to four interceptions in his first three games of his career to four touchdown passes to no interceptions in his last game. Now, over his last four games, he has nine touchdown passes to one interceptions, while throwing for the first 300 yard game of his career. He's not infallible by any means, but he gets a nice matchup against the Raiders, who just allowed three touchdown passes to Tua Tagovailoa and five to Joe Burrow the week before.
