Although an NFL game's first play from scrimmage is one of countless in a matchup, it can reveal a lot. Daire Carragher breaks down the recent trends behind the start of every contest.

The best fantasy football quarterbacks to avoid in 2026 are not necessarily poor players. They are expensive options whose risks outweigh the potential advantage over quarterbacks available several rounds later.

Puka Nacua headlines this fantasy football draft strategy for 10-team PPR leagues, giving managers drafting between Picks 4 and 7 a clear first-round target based on elite production. From there, the strategy emphasizes locking in premium running backs such as Chase Brown and Kyren Williams before pivoting to value at quarterback and tight end.

The NFL's best receivers possess multiple feathers in their cap, including often owning certain regions of the field. These are the league's highest-graded wideouts in the short, intermediate and deep depths over the past five seasons.

Every passing offense depends on the relationship between its quarterback and receivers, but traditional statistics only tell part of the story. This data-driven look at NFL quarterback-receiver partnerships analyzes every quarterback-target connection from 2006 through 2025 using expected points added (EPA) per play alongside PFF's proprietary grading data.

Dalton Wasserman and Max Chadwick rank all 32 NFL teams' starting running backs ahead of the 2026 season.

NFL quarterbacks are taking longer than ever to get rid of the football, and PFF's exclusive time-to-throw data illustrates how dramatically the position continues to evolve. Leaguewide average time to throw has climbed every season since 2020, reaching 2.86 seconds in 2025, but individual quarterback trends tell an even more compelling story.

Every NFL player hopes to turn heads in their second seasons, but these 10 names will be watched even more closely.

Yards per route run remains one of PFF's most predictive receiving metrics, measuring how efficiently a wide receiver produces every time they run a route rather than simply rewarding volume. The 2025 NFL season was led by Puka Nacua, who paced all qualifying receivers with 3.57 yards per route run while also leading the league in receiving grade, targets and receiving yards.

The NFL's biggest quarterback improvements and regressions from 2024 to 2025 are reflected in PFF passing grades and the advanced metrics behind them. Matthew Stafford headlines the list of risers after improving to a league-best 91.7 passing grade behind an elite big-time throw rate.

Drake Maye, Jayden Daniels and C.J. Stroud have set the NFL on fire in recent seasons. Bradley Locker looks into the data to determine how common that's been over the last 20 years.

Performance on zero-graded throws offers a unique way to evaluate quarterback play by isolating routine execution from extraordinary plays. Using two decades of PFF grading data, this analysis examines more than 221,000 zero-graded pass attempts to measure how quarterbacks and offensive systems perform when simply executing what's expected.

The 2026 PFF QB Annual delivers a comprehensive breakdown of every qualifying NFL quarterback using PFF grades, advanced charting and predictive metrics that extend far beyond traditional statistics. Among the biggest findings, Matthew Stafford earned the league's highest passing grade, Joe Burrow posted historically elite ball security despite playing only eight games, and Patrick Mahomes experienced a significant decline in structured passing efficiency.

Mason Cameron highlights the most-targeted pass-catchers in the NFL last season when opposing defenses generated pressure.