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Jared Goff
Jared Goff is a quarterback for the Detroit Lions. Depth chart: QB1.
Scouting report
Jared Goff: the full picture
Jared Goff at a glance
Jared Goff is a 32-year-old quarterback for the Detroit Lions, listed at 6'4" and 217 pounds. The Los Angeles Rams drafted Goff 1st overall in the first round in 2016, out of California, and 2026 is Goff's 11th NFL season.
2026 projection
The Gridiron Value season model projects Goff for 304.9 PPR points in 2026, which ranks QB9 at the position and works out to 17.9 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 5 games of 2026, Goff has scored 115.0 PPR points, or 23.0 per game. That is 37.7% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Goff would finish with about 391 points, ahead of the 304.9 projected. The best week so far is 29.8 points in Week 2 against BUF, the QB2 finish that week. Goff has cleared the 18-point mark we count as a usable QB start in 4 of 5 games, a 80% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 34 qualified quarterbacks of 2026, Goff ranks in the 96th percentile in interception rate, the 90th percentile in td rate and the 87th percentile in pass TDs. Four of the 8 tracked categories sit at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 10th percentile in rush yards.
Career track record
By season-long PPR scoring, Goff has finished as QB19 in 2020, QB24 in 2021, QB10 in 2022, QB7 in 2023, QB6 in 2024 and QB9 in 2025. Six of those 10 seasons ended inside the top twelve. The high-water mark is 324.5 PPR points in 2024. Across 156 regular-season games on record, the totals read 41,107 passing yards, 268 passing touchdowns, 612 rushing yards and 13 rushing touchdowns.
Jared Goff by the numbers
Goff has been the highest-scoring quarterback of the week 6 times, finished in the weekly top five at the position 31 times and finished in the top twelve 64 times. The career high is 41.1 PPR points, set in Week 15 of 2024 against BUF. The game log also shows 7 games of 30 or more PPR points, 50 300-yard passing games and 43 games with three or more touchdowns. In all, Goff has reached 20 points in 52 games, 33% of career appearances.
How the production happens
In 2026, Goff threw 7.6 deep passes per game (15 or more air yards) and completed 47% of them, against 30.6 short attempts per game at 72%. About 12.6 passes per game fell incomplete. Average time to throw was 2.70 seconds.
Contract
Goff is playing on a four-year, $212 million contract signed with the Detroit Lions in 2024, an average of $53 million per year with $114 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2027 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Goff carries a GV stock price of 4,671, which ranks 33rd overall and QB12 among quarterbacks out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Goff 28th overall. Value has moved up 6.0 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Patrick Mahomes, Bryce Young and Trevor Lawrence. See where Goff sits on the trade value chart.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 304.9
- PPR / game
- 17.9
Jared Goff fantasy outlook
Jared Goff enters the 2026 season with DET and ranks QB9 and #17 overall in the current Gridiron Value projection. The model projects 304.9 PPR points across 17.0 games, or 17.9 points per game, placing the expected outcome in an elite fantasy tier. The preseason depth chart lists Jared Goff as QB1, so the opportunity forecast is tied to that current role rather than name value alone. In 2025, Jared Goff produced 297.1 PPR points in 17 games (17.5 per game), giving the projection a recent performance baseline. Projection confidence is 62%, with a 82% modeled chance of a Top-24 positional finish. The main variables are role stability, team scoring volume, and normal efficiency variance.
Week 1 projection
Jared Goff is projected for 18.3 PPR points at home against NO in week 1, with a likely range of 1.5 to 43.9.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is up 6.0 since the previous model run (rising).
- Redraft
- 55.5
- Dynasty
- 45.3
- Superflex redraft
- 93.3
- Superflex dynasty
- 86.6
- TE premium dynasty
- 27.3
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Cmp | Att | Pass yds | Pass TD | Int | Rush yds | Rush TD | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DET | 5 | 128 | 191 | 1,485 | 12 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 115.0 |
| 2025 | DET | 17 | 393 | 578 | 4,564 | 34 | 8 | 45 | 0 | 297.1 |
| 2024 | DET | 17 | 390 | 539 | 4,629 | 37 | 12 | 56 | 0 | 324.5 |
| 2023 | DET | 17 | 407 | 605 | 4,575 | 30 | 12 | 21 | 2 | 289.1 |
| 2022 | DET | 17 | 382 | 587 | 4,438 | 29 | 7 | 73 | 0 | 284.3 |
| 2021 | DET | 14 | 332 | 494 | 3,245 | 19 | 8 | 87 | 0 | 194.5 |
| 2020 | LA | 15 | 370 | 552 | 3,952 | 20 | 13 | 99 | 4 | 240.0 |
| 2019 | LA | 16 | 394 | 626 | 4,638 | 22 | 16 | 40 | 2 | 247.5 |
| 2018 | LA | 16 | 364 | 561 | 4,688 | 32 | 12 | 108 | 2 | 310.3 |
| 2017 | LA | 15 | 296 | 477 | 3,804 | 28 | 7 | 51 | 1 | 255.3 |
Quarterbacks ranked near Jared Goff
- Bo Nix QB6 · 321.4 PPR
- Trevor Lawrence QB7 · 314.6 PPR
- Jalen Hurts QB8 · 308.5 PPR
- Malik Willis QB10 · 304.6 PPR
- Justin Herbert QB11 · 304.4 PPR
- Patrick Mahomes QB12 · 304.1 PPR
Detroit Lions fantasy players
- Jahmyr Gibbs RB · 349.0 PPR
- Amon-Ra St. Brown WR · 322.7 PPR
- Jameson Williams WR · 169.2 PPR
- Sam LaPorta TE · 154.9 PPR
- Isaac TeSlaa WR · 95.1 PPR
- Isiah Pacheco RB · 43.3 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-10-20.