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Joe Burrow
Joe Burrow is a quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals. Depth chart: QB1.
Scouting report
Joe Burrow: the full picture
Joe Burrow at a glance
Joe Burrow is a 29-year-old quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals, listed at 6'4" and 215 pounds. The Cincinnati Bengals drafted Burrow 1st overall in the first round in 2020, out of LSU, and 2026 is Burrow's 7th NFL season.
2026 projection
The Gridiron Value season model projects Burrow for 212.5 PPR points in 2026, which ranks QB25 at the position and works out to 13.0 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 5 games of 2026, Burrow has scored 101.2 PPR points, or 20.2 per game. That is 47.6% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Burrow would finish with about 344 points, ahead of the 212.5 projected. The best week so far is 24.6 points in Week 5 against MIA, the QB9 finish that week. Burrow has cleared the 18-point mark we count as a usable QB start in 3 of 5 games, a 60% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 34 qualified quarterbacks of 2026, Burrow ranks in the 81st percentile in td rate, the 78th percentile in CPOE and the 75th percentile in pass TDs. Three of the 8 tracked categories sit at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 34th percentile in rush yards.
Career track record
By season-long PPR scoring, Burrow has finished as QB25 in 2020, QB8 in 2021, QB4 in 2022, QB25 in 2023, QB3 in 2024 and QB29 in 2025. That is two top-five positional finishes in 6 completed seasons. The high-water mark is 372.8 PPR points in 2024. Across 82 regular-season games on record, the totals read 22,171 passing yards, 168 passing touchdowns, 895 rushing yards and 13 rushing touchdowns.
Joe Burrow by the numbers
Burrow has been the highest-scoring quarterback of the week 6 times, finished in the weekly top five at the position 20 times and finished in the top twelve 47 times. The career high is 39.2 PPR points, set in Week 7 of 2022 against ATL, the top QB score of that week. The game log also shows 9 games of 30 or more PPR points, 29 300-yard passing games and 32 games with three or more touchdowns. In all, Burrow has reached 20 points in 36 games, 44% of career appearances.
How the production happens
In 2026, Burrow threw 5.4 deep passes per game (15 or more air yards) and completed 59% of them, against 32.4 short attempts per game at 73%. About 10.2 passes per game fell incomplete. Average time to throw was 2.80 seconds.
Contract
Burrow is playing on a five-year, $275 million contract signed with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2023, an average of $55 million per year with $147 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2027 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Burrow carries a GV stock price of 5,121, which ranks 19th overall and QB7 among quarterbacks out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Burrow 60th overall. Value has moved down 1.0 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence and Baker Mayfield. See where Burrow sits on the trade value chart.
Latest news
The most recent news item linked to Burrow is from October 6, 2026. Read the latest Joe Burrow news.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 212.5
- PPR / game
- 13.0
Joe Burrow fantasy outlook
Joe Burrow enters the 2026 season with CIN and ranks QB25 and #60 overall in the current Gridiron Value projection. The model projects 212.5 PPR points across 16.3 games, or 13.0 points per game, placing the expected outcome in a lineup and depth tier. The preseason depth chart lists Joe Burrow as QB1, so the opportunity forecast is tied to that current role rather than name value alone. In 2025, Joe Burrow produced 134.5 PPR points in 8 games (16.8 per game), giving the projection a recent performance baseline. Projection confidence is 56%, with a 33% modeled chance of a Top-24 positional finish. The main variables are role stability, team scoring volume, and normal efficiency variance.
Week 1 projection
Joe Burrow is projected for 17.1 PPR points at home against TB in week 1, with a likely range of 0.0 to 38.5.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is down 1.0 since the previous model run (stable).
- Redraft
- 47.5
- Dynasty
- 49.7
- Superflex redraft
- 87.1
- Superflex dynasty
- 89.3
- TE premium dynasty
- 29.9
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Cmp | Att | Pass yds | Pass TD | Int | Rush yds | Rush TD | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CIN | 5 | 135 | 189 | 1,361 | 11 | 3 | 48 | 1 | 101.2 |
| 2025 | CIN | 8 | 173 | 259 | 1,809 | 17 | 5 | 41 | 0 | 134.5 |
| 2024 | CIN | 17 | 460 | 652 | 4,918 | 43 | 9 | 201 | 2 | 372.8 |
| 2023 | CIN | 10 | 244 | 365 | 2,309 | 15 | 6 | 88 | 0 | 147.2 |
| 2022 | CIN | 16 | 414 | 606 | 4,475 | 35 | 12 | 257 | 5 | 350.7 |
| 2021 | CIN | 16 | 366 | 520 | 4,611 | 34 | 14 | 118 | 2 | 314.2 |
| 2020 | CIN | 10 | 264 | 404 | 2,688 | 13 | 5 | 142 | 3 | 173.7 |
Quarterbacks ranked near Joe Burrow
- Tyler Shough QB22 · 241.5 PPR
- Daniel Jones QB23 · 239.4 PPR
- Kyler Murray QB24 · 236.4 PPR
- Cam Ward QB26 · 199.9 PPR
- Michael Penix Jr. QB27 · 199.9 PPR
- Jameis Winston QB28 · 180.8 PPR
Cincinnati Bengals fantasy players
- Ja'Marr Chase WR · 331.3 PPR
- Chase Brown RB · 260.7 PPR
- Tee Higgins WR · 193.0 PPR
- Mike Gesicki TE · 121.6 PPR
- Andrei Iosivas WR · 100.0 PPR
- Colbie Young WR · 60.5 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-10-20.