Fantasy Football Start/Sit Rankings & Advice: Quarterback (Week 15)

Through the first 11 weeks of the season, Tua Tagovailoa averaged 20.4 fantasy points per game. Over the least three weeks, he’s averaged 14.8 fantasy points per game. Tua’s completion percentage over the last three weeks is 51.6%. But during that three-game stretch, he’s averaging a perfectly respectable 7.6 yards per pass attempt. If you want to fade Tua this week because of the “slump” and because he’s facing a Bills defense that’s giving up 14.1 FPPG to opposing quarterbacks, fine. But please don’t fade him because of the gameday forecast in Buffalo, which is calling for snow and 10-15 mph winds. It’s not going to be the sort of blizzard-like snow that can affect passing games, and that isn’t a substantial wind. I’m ranking Tua as a low-end QB1.

In his last five December home games, Aaron Rodgers has 15 TD passes and one interception. Pass-catching weaponry was a problem for Rodgers early in the season, but he now has a formidable WR duo in Christian Watson and Allen Lazard, and the Packers are expected to get Romeo Doubs back from a high-ankle sprain this week. Rodgers profiles as a low-end QB1 against a Rams pass defense that isn’t as daunting as it used to be.

Jared Goff has averaged 303.3 passing yards over this last three games, with seven TD passes and no interceptions over that stretch. He also has an embarrassment of riches at wide receiver now that D.J. Chark, Josh Reynolds and Jameson Williams are all healthy, joining dynamic alpha receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown. But Goff is just a high-end QB2 this week in a tough road matchup against the Jets, who are allowing the third-fewest yards per pass attempt (5.8), the eighth-fewest fantasy points per game to QBs (15.1) and have the second-lowest opponent passer rating (78.1).

Some people are high on Mike White as a Week 15 streamer. I’m not eager to stake my fantasy season on a quarterback who’s thrown more interceptions than TD passes in his seven NFL games and adds no value as a runner. White has an attractive matchup against a Lions defense that’s giving up 24.0 fantasy points per game to opposing QBs, most in the league. But White has failed to throw a TD pass in his last two starts, and his floor is uncomfortably low even with an inviting matchup.

A better Week 15 streamer than Mike White: Mac Jones, who’s the superior quarterback and gets a matchup against a Raiders pass defense that turned Baker Mayfield into a superhero last week.

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