Michael F. Florio

Discussed it on @NFLFantasy pod but predict where these veteran QBs end up for 2026!

- Kyler Murray:
- Aaron Rodgers:
- Kirk Cousins:
- Derek Carr:
- Russell Wilson:

Anyone else?

Excited for this! @marcasg.bsky.social @rotoballer.com @siriusxmfantasy.bsky.social

Kenneth Walker for MVP

The team that scores first is 38-21 all-time in the Super Bowl

- The Patriots have 12 defensive sacks in the 2025 postseason
- Tied with 2005 PIT for most by a team entering a Super Bowl over last 30 seasons
- 2005 PIT had 3 defensive sacks in Super Bowl XL win vs SEA

The Patriots have allowed 3.3 yards/play in the 2025 postseason
- 4th-fewest all-time in a single postseason by a team that played 3+ games

- The Patriots defense has blitzed on 40.6 pct of opponent dropbacks in the playoffs (NGS)
- The Patriots only blitzed on 27.6 pct of dropbacks in the regular season
- Darnold had a league-high 7 INT when blitzed in 2025 (only QB with more than 5)

Patriots generate 31% pressure rate when they don’t blitz, 48% when they do
- Sam Darnold: 104 passer rating when not blitzed, 96.5 when blitzed

Maye is the 3rd QB to ever reach the Super Bowl winning in the Wild Card, Divisional and Conference Championship with a completion pct below 60.0 pct in all 3 wins

Maye (47) took the 2nd most sacks by a QB to make Super Bowl (Joe Burrow, 51, lost)

- LT Will Campbell and RT Morgan Moses have allowed 4 sacks each in the 2025 playoffs
- Most by any OL in playoffs; Campbell’s 15 pressures allowed are most by any OL

Seahawks have had the 4th-highest pressure rate (38.1) but blitzed at the 5th-lowest rate (22.3) in 2025, including playoffs
- The Seahawks have had a 35.2 pressure pct without blitzing (5th-highest)
- The Seahawks have had a 48.2 pressure pct when blitzing (3rd-highest)

Smith-Njigba accounted for 44.1 pct of the Seahawks rec yards in 2025
- Highest pct of team’s rec yds in regular season by a player to play in the Super Bowl that season in the last 50 seasons
- Only HOF Paul Warfield in 1971 (44.3 pct) had a higher pct on a Super Bowl team

Smith-Njigba became the 1st player in the Super Bowl era to lead the league in rec yards while playing for a team that passed the ball at a bottom-3 rate

SEA: 50.0 pass pct in 2025 (3rd-lowest in NFL, ahead of only BAL & BUF)

Sam Darnold will be the 4th QB to start a Super Bowl at a stadium he has previously started a home game at (the previous 3 quarterbacks all won the Super Bowl)

BAL Trent Dilfer is the only other QB to start in a Super Bowl for a different team at a stadium he previously started a home game

The 2025 Patriots -10.8 PPG differential from the regular season to the postseason is T-3rd largest such decrease by a team entering a Super Bowl all-time

2 of other 3 lost (2013 Broncos, 2007 Pats. The 1971 Cowboys won)

Super Bowl LX is the first Super Bowl featuring two teams who both missed the playoffs in the previous season since Super Bowl XXXVIII (2003) between Panthers & Patriots

Got a lot of research for this game so might as well dump them here before the game!

Super Bowl LX stats dump! 👇🏻👇🏻

If @laquanjonesnfl.bsky.social got 10 carries behind the Rams offensive line against the Bengals ... would he get 12 yards?

Low Key Good TE Free Agent Class 2026

Kyle Pitts
Travis Kelce (retire?)
Isaiah Likely
Dallas Goedert
David Njoku
Darren Waller
Chig Okonkwo
Cade Otton
Taysom Hill
Jake Tonges (RFA)

Lots of other names that were once thought to be fantasy relevant

Interesting WR Free Agent Class 2026

George Pickens
Mike Evans
Alec Pierce
Jauan Jennings
Rashid Shadeed
Wan'Dale Robinson
Marquise Brown
Keenan Allen
Christian Kirk
Deebo Samuel
Brandin Cooks
Greg Dortch
Kendrick Bourne

Good RB Free Agent Class for 2026

Breece Hall
Travis Etienne
Kenneth Walker
Javonte Williams
Isiah Pacheco
Tyler Allgeier
Rico Dowdle
Rachaad White
Kenneth Gainwell
Brian Robinson Jr

Some RFA I find interesting: Sean Tucker, Keaton Mitchell, Emanuel Wilson, Chris Rodriguez

The last player to run for 100 yards against the Seahawks?

James Cook in Week 8, 2024

QBs who threw to 1st Read at highest rate (min. 100 attempts)

1. Daniel Jones, 77%
2. Brady Cook, 73%
3. JJ McCarthy, 71%
4. Davis Mills, 70%
5. Trevor Lawrence, 69%
6. Jake Browning, 69%
7. Tyler Shough, 69%
8. Michael Penix, 69%
9. Marcus Mariota, 68%
10. Jared Goff, 68%

Todd Monken in 3 seasons with Baltimore

- Finished 4th, 3rd, 11th in offensive points
- Each season finished: top 3 in rush attempts, top 2 in rush yds, top 6 in rush TD
- Even with Lamar, just one season in top 10 in pass yds/TDs. 30th or worse in pass attempts each year

It is clearly a small sample size, but there is a lot to like in the limited opportunities we got to see Malik Willis

He remains a potential cheat code in fantasy and I am super invested in where he signs this offseason

Malik Willis led all QBs the last 2 seasons in passer rating (134.6), completion percentage (78.7), EPA per dropback (0.38) and success rate (52%) - min 80 pass attempts (small sample)

For fantasy, in 8 games with 60%+ of snaps he averaged 40 rush YPG with 4 rush TD in 8 games

Drake Maye has a -17.7 EPA as a passer in the playoffs

That is the worst of any conference winning QB in the NextGenStats era (since 2016). The only other QB to post negative was Jimmy Garoppolo in 2019 (-0.9)

The Rams have the 13th and 29th picks in the first round this year. They also have $46 million in cap space as of now (8th most)

Never a guarantee of staying healthy like this did year - but they’re going to be a problem again next season

The 2018 QB class has produced 3 MVP awards, 4 franchise QBs, potentially multiple future HOFers, a banker and now a Super Bowl appearance

The fans started booing and the ref said “it’s still a first down” 😂