Fantasy Football Pre-Season QB Rankings & Tiers (August 11, 2009)

What we're doing here is looking back at last week's QB Rankings and commenting on anything we see changing.

• Tom Brady (5th, Tier 2) Everybody loves Tom Brady. He hasn't missed a practice and he still has Randy and Welker plus Joey Galloway and Bill B's boy Greg Lewis. Don't really think Brady is an injury risk but the track record of QB's coming back from multiple ligament tears (Rivers last year doesn't count) is not good for at least the first 10 games back. And don't sleep on the Patriots desire to run the ball. If Maroney is healthy and Taylor stays fresh Brady might not get nearly the pass attempts he needs to be a top 3 QB. We're not raising him to Tier 1 yet.
• Philip Rivers (6th, Tier 2) This is more of a hunch thing than anything else but I just don't think the Chargers will pass nearly as much as they did last year. Their defense should be much better, their division is weak and a healthy LT is screaming for the ball. If the Chargers are a very good team Rivers' stats will probably suffer a bit. It might not be the worst idea in the world to handcuff LT and Rivers. Neither will kill you and one of the two should always have a very good game.
• Kurt Warner (8th, Tier 3) The news that Matt Leinart could lose the #2 job actually helps Warner. It's pretty much official that Warner is THE GUY barring injury or catastrophe. The Cardinals o-line should continue to gel and improve so this should bump Warner up to Tier 2.
• Jason Campbell (16th, Tier 5) You gotta love the Redskins. On one hand you hear reports about how good Campbell looks, but then you hear about how awesome Colt Brennan looks. Not buying the latter. The Redskins drafted 3 recieving weapons in the second round last year. If just one of them produces something it will help Campbell a ton. Plus this is the first time since Campbell was in college that he gets to stay in the same offensive system. The Redskins o-line is a mess now but if they get it together Campbell could make a run at being a lower-level QB1 or at least a very nice QB2.

Again this is just a quick look. What do you think? We didn't downgrade McNabb yet because he absolutely will get his pass attempts. But if the Eagles don't get their o-line straightened out by Week 3 of the pre-season McNabb could drop an entire tier.