How much QB1 potential is available for the 2020 season?

Yahoo Sports' Scott Pianowski is joined by TJ Hernandez from 4for4 Fantasy Football and they discuss just how many QBs fall into the QB1 category and what order to draft some of them. Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

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TJ HERNANDEZ: Wilson, Prescott, and Murray, you're going to have a lot of variation from league to league in terms of where those guys go, three to five. I think they're kind of interchangeable just depending on who's drafting early.

I kind of look at this the way I look at an ambiguous running-back-committee situation. Just give me the cheapest guy. I think there are-- and we'll get into other guys here-- a lot of people are going to say six. I say there's seven quarterbacks that have the overall quarterback one in the range of outcomes.

And one of the really unique things about this season and kind of going back to our conversation about waiting on a quarterback-- and you touched on the quarterback rushing-- but we have seven guys that could limit rush it 75 times. And if you add that to the offenses that they're in, we have seven guys that can go for 30 passing touchdowns, 5 rushing touchdowns.

That's only happened eight times since 1997 where the quarterback one [? one ?] was the quarterback two in fantasy, and all of a sudden we could just have this outlier year where, like, multiple guys can hit that number. So why draft the QB three when the QB six has that 35 potential?

So I mean, if I do want one of those top-five guys, give me the last one. Russell Wilson is the one that you're going to trust the most just because we've seen him do him over and over. And Brian Schottenheimer gets a lot of heat because of how much the Seahawks run the ball, and he's he's nowhere near Greg Roman. And I think Brian Daboll is actually trending towards Greg Roman. I actually like how Brian Daboll's been running the Bills' offense and building up Josh Allen.

But Brian Schottenheimer are similar to those guys in that although he doesn't throw that much, when he does, he throws the deep ball. And Russell Wilson has been arguably the most efficient deep-ball passer in the league. That's where he makes up for that lack of volume.

And obviously-- I mean, you mentioned his legs. Like, he still rushed for 75 times last--

SCOTT PIANOWSKI: Sure.

TJ HERNANDEZ: --75 times last year. Like, give me any quarterback that's going to break that, like, 60-, 65-rush threshold, and that's a lot of upside.