Updated NFL Fantasy Football Rankings at Week 9: Top 50 QBs for the Rest of 2010

The league’s top scoring fantasy player through the first half of the season was San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers.

Despite being without Vincent Jackson and working with a banged up group of receivers outside of that, Rivers has thrown for an impressive 2,649 yards, which puts him on pace for over 5,000 yards this season. He moves up a spot this week over Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers who failed to throw a touchdown last week.

Philadelphia’s quarterback situation is beginning to clear up and it looks like Mike Vick is back to being the starter. He has said that he’s going to have to be more careful when he’s running, but there isn’t a better dual-threat quarterback in the history of the NFL.

Assuming he plays this week, Vick moves up seven spots to ninth among quarterbacks. His counterpart, Kevin Kolb, moves down 13 spots. It’s going to be hard for Kolb to get back on the field unless Vick gets hurt, but he has to be considered the top backup quarterback in the league.

Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford returned from injury this week and wow did he look good. Stafford had 212 yards passing and threw a career-high four touchdown passes in the Lions’ big win over the Redskins. He has a tough matchup this week against the Jets, but his remaining schedule still has some nice matchups. He moves up five spots this week and could go up from there if he keeps tossing the ball to “Megatron.”

Brett Favre moves down three more spots this week, all the way down to 24th among QBs. With Randy Moss now gone, Favre is back to an average group of receivers and even though it sounds like Sidney Rice will be back soon, it will probably take some time before he’s in good enough shape to start making a big impact. By then, it might be too late.

Kyle Orton moves down a few spots this week and quite honestly, it’s not his fault. Orton has been on fire this season and currently ranks second in the league in passing yardage, behind only Philip Rivers.

But the problem is that the Broncos have recently activated Tim Tebow and have been using him near the goal line, as I expected they would in the preseason. Orton is still getting his passing yardage, but the big fantasy points always come in the form of touchdowns. If Orton isn’t in near the goal line, then he won’t be getting enough of those points to continue being a fantasy star.

View all of the updated rankings here:
Quarterbacks | Running Backs | Wide Receivers | Tight Ends

RANK	PLAYER	TEAM	PREVIOUS RANK	MOVEMENT
1	Peyton Manning	IND	1	0
2	Drew Brees	NO	2	0
3	Philip Rivers	SD	4	1
4	Aaron Rodgers	GB	3	-1
5	Matt Schaub	HOU	5	0
6	Tom Brady	NE	6	0
7	Joe Flacco	BAL	7	0
8	Ben Roethlisberger	PIT	8	0
9	Mike Vick	PHI	16	7
10	Matt Ryan	ATL	9	-1
11	Eli Manning	NYG	11	0
12	Carson Palmer	CIN	12	0
13	Kyle Orton	DEN	10	-3
14	Matthew Stafford	DET	19	5
15	Mark Sanchez	NYJ	13	-2
16	Josh Freeman	TB	20	4
17	Donovan McNabb	WAS	14	-3
18	Chad Henne	MIA	17	-1
19	Jay Cutler	CHI	18	-1
20	Ryan Fitzpatrick	BUF	23	3
21	Sam Bradford	STL	26	5
22	David Garrard	JAC	28	6
23	Vince Young	TEN	25	2
24	Brett Favre	MIN	21	-3
25	Matt Cassel	KC	24	-1
26	Jon Kitna	DAL	30	4
27	Matt Hasselbeck	SEA	22	-5
28	Kevin Kolb	PHI	15	-13
29	Matt Moore	CAR	29	0
30	Bruce Gradkowski	OAK	27	-3
31	Tarvaris Jackson	MIN	31	0
32	Colt McCoy	CLE	NR	-
33	Jason Campbell	OAK	37	4
34	Charlie Whitehurst	SEA	NR	-
35	Derek Anderson	ARI	32	-3
36	Tim Tebow	DEN	NR	-
37	Kerry Collins	TEN	33	-4
38	Troy Smith	SF	34	-4
39	Alex Smith	SF	35	-4
40	Max Hall	ARI	38	-2
41	Trent Edwards	JAC	39	-2
42	Jake Delhomme	CLE	40	-2
43	Seneca Wallace	CLE	41	-2
44	David Carr	SF	42	-2
45	Tony Romo	DAL	36	-9
46	Shaun Hill	DET	43	-3
47	Jimmy Clausen	CAR	44	-3
48	Josh Johnson	TB	46	-2
49	Matt Flynn	GB	47	-2
50	Drew Stanton	DET	48	-2