Superflex 2026: The QB Value Tier Everyone Skips

In one-QB PPR, Josh Allen is a Round 3 pick and you can wait on quarterback until your league forgets the position exists. In superflex he's the 1.02, off the board before half your league drafts a running back. The math is simple: two starting QB slots plus a superflex means most rooms need 24-plus passers, and there are not 24 good ones. Every draft becomes a run on the position, and the people who lose are the ones who treat it like a standard league until it's too late.

How the top of the board reshuffles

Allen and Gibbs share the 1.02 in superflex, but the story is what happens behind them. Drake Maye jumps to 1.07, ahead of Ja'Marr Chase. Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow both crack the first round at 1.08 and 1.09. In one-QB PPR, Maye is a 5.04, Jackson a 5.09 and Burrow a 5.10. That's a three-to-four round swing on the same players, and it happens before you've locked a single skill guy at value.

• ▸Josh Allen: 3.10 standard, 1.02 superflex
• ▸Drake Maye: 5.04 standard, 1.07 superflex
• ▸Lamar Jackson: 5.09 standard, 1.08 superflex
• ▸Joe Burrow: 5.10 standard, 1.09 superflex
• ▸Dak Prescott: 6.05 standard, 2.01 superflex

Fifteen QBs gone by the end of Round 3

Count the superflex board through 3.11 and fifteen quarterbacks are already gone. Allen, Maye, Jackson, Burrow in Round 1. Prescott, Daniels, Hurts, Stafford, Purdy, Lawrence, Williams, Mahomes in Round 2. Goff and Herbert early in Round 3. That's a full round-and-a-half of pure QB inflation stacked on top of your normal RB and WR runs. If you punt the position, you're fighting over the QB16 while everyone else has two starters.

The trap is thinking you can replicate the standard-league discipline of waiting. You can't. The window between the elite tier and the streaming tier is narrower here, and it closes fast. But narrower does not mean nonexistent, and the middle rounds are where disciplined drafters recover the value they didn't spend up top.

The Round 4-5 QB pocket is the edge

Here is where superflex rewards patience without punishing it. Baker Mayfield lands at 4.06, Tyler Shough at 4.12, Kyler Murray at 5.05, Sam Darnold at 5.09 and Jordan Love at 5.10. Every one of those is a startable arm you can pair with an early-round QB1 to lock both slots without ever reaching. Mayfield in particular is the standout: he's an 11.09 in standard PPR and a 4.06 here, which tells you the market still doesn't fully trust him even as a proven fantasy producer.

• ▸Baker Mayfield: 11.09 standard, 4.06 superflex
• ▸Kyler Murray: not top-140 standard, 5.05 superflex
• ▸Sam Darnold: not top-140 standard, 5.09 superflex
• ▸Jordan Love: not top-140 standard, 5.10 superflex
• ▸Tyler Shough: not top-140 standard, 4.12 superflex

The best relative values

Value in superflex means the gap between what a QB costs and what the position around him costs. Mayfield is the cleanest example, but the smarter play is the tier of Round 5 arms who barely register in standard leagues. Murray, Darnold and Love are all effectively free in one-QB formats and become genuine QB2 starters here. Draft one early passer, wait on this pocket, and you've solved both slots by the fifth round while the RB-heavy drafters scramble.

Contrast that with the passers you should not pay up for. Prescott at 2.01 and Purdy at 2.07 both cost a top-24 pick, which means you're spending premium capital on QBs whose skill-position peers you're now forced to skip. The value isn't in the reach; it's in the fall. Let the room panic-draft the middle tier and take the Round 5 arm nobody's excited about.

Pair one early QB1 with a Round 5 arm like Murray or Love and you win both slots without ever burning a pick you'll regret.

The bottom line

Superflex doesn't reward reaching or punting; it rewards knowing exactly where the middle falls out. Fifteen quarterbacks are gone by the end of Round 3, so grab your anchor inside that window, then let the Mayfield-Murray-Love pocket in Rounds 4 and 5 come to you. That's how you leave the draft with two real starters and a skill-position core that didn't cost you the season.