If you want to have a successful fantasy football season, you have to avoid busts, especially at the quarterback position. Overdrafting a quarterback is already a sticky situation. Still, if you end up with a bust at the highest scoring position when you could have easily drafted another option rounds later, it's a disaster. These are the quarterback busts to avoid in your fantasy drafts.
Justin Herbert, Los Angeles Chargers
It feels like we are doing this every year now. Fantasy owners need to stop chasing what once was. It's a different position, but this feels like what fantasy owners did for years with Odell Beckham Jr. We know that Herbert has all the physical tools, but he's an overrated quarterback in a system that is clearly built to pound the ball on the ground and allow the defense to help them win games.
Herbert hasn't thrown for 4,000 yards since 2022, and he hasn't topped 26 touchdowns since 2021. We have seen him being drafted as high as the QB6 this season. What are we doing? Yeah, 2021 was great, but that was a long time ago. This team is going to run over defenses with Omarion Hampton, not try to pick them apart with Ladd McConkey and Quentin Johnston.
Will Herbert have some big games? Of course. Nevertheless, he won't be a consistent option that you want to start weekly, and ultimately, we don't see him being much more productive than he was in 2025.
