Lamar Jackson
For those of you that play pro fantasy football, it's pretty standard knowledge that running backs are always the first to come off the board. Not so much with college fantasy. Dual-threat quarterbacks are far more prevalent in the college game, and are pure gold in CFF. That holds true once again in 2017 as the top three quarterbacks are all electric runners that will post double-digit rushing touchdowns in addition to their passing statistics.
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Athlon Sports has teamed up with contributor and resident college fantasy football expert Mike Bainbridge to help you prepare for the upcoming college fantasy football draft season with our positional rankings. Below is the scoring system used to comprise these positional rankings.
Passing Yards, 25 Yards = 1 point
Passing TD = 4 points
Rushing Yards, 10 yards = 1 point
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Rushing TDs = 6 points
Receptions = 0.5 points per reception
Receiving Yards, 10 yards = 1 point
Receiving TDs = 6 points
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2017 College Fantasy Postional Rankings: QB I RB I WR I TE I DEF I K
College Fantasy Football QB Rankings for 2017
Rank | Player | Team | FPPG* |
1 | Lamar Jackson | Louisville | 42.06 |
2 | Nick Fitzgerald | Mississippi State | 34.62 |
3 | Quinton Flowers | South Florida | 34.42 |
4 | Baker Mayfield | Oklahoma | 32.40 |
5 | Mason Rudolph | Oklahoma State | 31.70 |
6 | J.T. Barrett | Ohio State | 31.32 |
7 | Sam Darnold | USC | 30.66 |
8 | Eric Dungey | Syracuse | 30.03 |
9 | Luke Falk | Washington State | 29.91 |
10 | Nic Shimonek | Texas Tech | 29.38 |
11 | J'Mar Smith | Louisiana Tech | 29.27 |
12 | Jalen Hurts | Alabama | 29.07 |
13 | Brent Stockstill | Middle Tennessee | 28.81 |
14 | Kenny Hill | TCU | 28.78 |
15 | Logan Woodside | Toledo | 28.35 |
16 | Trace McSorley | Penn State | 28.16 |
17 | Riley Ferguson | Memphis | 28.10 |
18 | Jake Browning | Washington | 27.73 |
19 | Shea Patterson | Ole Miss | 27.54 |
20 | Josh Allen | Wyoming | 27.37 |
21 | Brogan Roback | Eastern Michigan | 27.31 |
22 | Dru Brown | Hawaii | 27.22 |
23 | Brandon Wimbush | Notre Dame | 26.85 |
24 | Will Grier | West Virginia | 26.81 |
25 | Deondre Francois | Florida State | 26.15 |
26 | David Cornwell | Nevada | 25.90 |
27 | Brandon Dawkins | Arizona | 25.87 |
28 | Zach Abey | Navy | 25.68 |
29 | Kelly Bryant | Clemson | 25.54 |
30 | Mike White | Western Kentucky | 25.34 |
31 | Jarrett Stidham | Auburn | 25.33 |
32 | Steven Montez | Colorado | 25.27 |
33 | Joshua Jackson | Virginia Tech | 25.22 |
34 | Jesse Ertz | Kansas State | 25.19 |
35 | Daniel Jones | Duke | 25.02 |
36 | Kyle Allen | Houston | 24.64 |
37 | Brett Rypien | Boise State | 24.43 |
38 | Drew Lock | Missouri | 24.40 |
39 | Shane Buechele | Texas | 24.28 |
40 | David Blough | Purdue | 23.98 |
*FPPG = Fantasy Points Per Game (projected) for 2017
— Written by Mike Bainbridge, who is part of the Athlon Contributor Network. Bainbridge is a graduate of Northern Illinois University. For additional College Fantasy Football insight, be sure to follow him on Twitter @MBainbridgeCFF.
