Can Jacoby Brissett Lift The Arizona Cardinals To Be Fun Again For Fantasy Football?
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Can Jacoby Brissett Lift The Arizona Cardinals To Be Fun Again For Fantasy Football?

Ian Hartitz breaks down the QB position for the Arizona Cardinals, and if Jacoby Brissett can hang on to make the offense viable for fantasy football.

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We'll always have those 12 games that Jacoby Brissett started for the Arizona Cardinals in 2025. He averaged 40.3 passes per game, completing 65.1% of them. He threw for 280.5 per game as well. As the kids would say, it was cinema for fantasy football. Now comes Brissett surviving the NFL offseason to be poised as the likely starter, which means he's holding out for a new contract. Then look at the possibility of Carson Beck taking over at some point in the season to see if he could be the guy behind center long term for the Cardinals in the future. Ian Hartitz breaks it down as part of his Arizona Cardinals Team Preview.

Is there any long-term answer at QB on this roster?

Probably not! Yes, Brissett was randomly an awesome fantasy asset last season—QB8 in fantasy points per game after taking over in Week 6! Also yes, this was thanks in large part to constant comeback-mode game script: Brissett threw 48 additional passes than any other QB during the final 13 weeks of last season. And that was with a bye week thrown in!

The actual efficiency numbers at hand painted Brissett as a very average thrower of the football in the year 2025.

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While GM Monti Ossenfort declined to name a QB1 last April, ESPN's Josh Weinfuss said in May that he's been told Brissett is QB1 despite him holding out for a new contract. This does make logical sense considering …

  • Gardner Minshew, cool mullet/mustache combo be damned, has largely functioned as nothing more than a fine-enough backup QB during his seven-year career. He ranks 31st and 34th in yards per attempt (6.6) and passer rating (82.2) among 37 qualified QBs during the past three seasons.
  • Carson "I'm a loser, baby" Beck won plenty of games during his time at Georgia and Miami, and was thought of as a potential early-Round 1 pick at various points of his collegiate career. Still, the soon-to-be 24-year-old signal-caller is hardly a spring chicken, and certainly resembled more of a game-manager than game-changer during his final campaign with the Hurricanes.

Ultimately, LaFleur hasn't exactly earned the benefit of the doubt here, and simply adding a (very good) running back to the equation doesn't seem like enough to turn the league's reigning 28th-ranked supporting cast into anything to overly fear. Brissett is a fine enough late-round best ball/superflex dart, but it's tough to be too enthused here due to the potential for Minshew and/or Beck to get starts if/when the Cardinals start stacking up losses again—especially as long as Brissett continues to execute one of the more hilarious holdouts in recent memory.

Players Mentioned in this Article

  1. Jacoby Brissett
    JacobyBrissett
    QBARIARI
    PPG
    16.5
    Proj
    178.8
  2. Gardner Minshew
    GardnerMinshew
    QBARIARI
    PPG
    0.2
  3. CarsonBeck
    QBARIARI
    Proj
    77.9

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