Player rankings seem like a great way to evaluate your potential selections in 2026 fantasy football drafts, but they ignore what ultimately decides your fantasy fate, specifically, player point production. While players may rank No. 3 and 4 in the quarterback rankings, No. 4 may project to score significantly fewer points than No. 3. So, while you may be betting the next best player at a position, you also could be walking off a points cliff and bypassing players at other positions who provide a bigger advantage for your weekly score.This is the premise behind “The Draft Chasms of Doom,” a series we began last year and explain in more detail here. Using Jake Ciely’s 2026 player projections, we’ll show you where he expects to find the biggest drops in projected points at each of the four skill positions, starting with quarterbacks, and explain what Jake’s projections are seeing to give you advanced warning of potential precipices.Below you can see the graphs for all four skill-position groups, and as you’ll note, there is an Everest-like drop-off at quarterback before we hit a very lengthy plateau. Let’s go full Indiana Jones and explore what the numbers are telling us about this year’s draft chasms of doom.Context is essential here, so let's start with an example. In 2025, Josh Allen was projected to be the second-best QB by our Jake Ciely behind Lamar Jackson. Allen finished as the top QB with 364.62 and 22.79 adjusted fantasy points per game (FPPG excluding games when QB didn't appear in the second half due to injury or late-season rest). Meanwhile, Drake Maye finished with 350.96 (20.64) and Matthew Stafford had 350.38 (20.61). If you drafted Allen, you had to do so early (2026 ADP of 27.1), but he still provided a decent edge at the position, scoring 2.15 more points per game than Maye and Stafford, the next best at the position. But Stafford only scored 2.01 more points per game than QB11 Caleb Williams.