Fantasy Football Week 8: Ben Roethlisberger and More QBs Ready for Big Days

Quarterbacks touch the ball more than anybody in the game of football. They need to be your most consistent player if you plan on winning a fantasy championship. Drew Brees, Ben Roethlisberger and Tom Brady are quarterbacks that should have great days throwing the football. Here is why. 

Drew Brees

Drew Brees is one of the more underrated quarterbacks in the NFL. He doesn’t get his due for being as great as he has been in the past few years.

He will continue the success he has had in 2011 by putting on a show at St. Louis against the winless Rams.

The run game will get going—against the league’s worst rush defense—which will allow Brees to use play action to hit receivers deep for long touchdowns.

Brees is second in the NFL in passing with 341 yards per game en route to 2,477 yards and 18 touchdowns in 2011.

Ben Roethlisberger

For years, we have heard that Ben Roethlisberger isn’t an elite quarterback in the NFL. He proved those people right when he struggled against Green Bay for the majority of their Super Bowl defeat.

However, Roethlisberger has more quality weapons around him than any time in his career. He has Hines Ward, Heath Miller, Emmanuel Sanders, Antonio Brown, Rashard Mendenhall and whoever else head coach Mike Tomlin decides to put on the field.

His numbers speak volumes to what he’s done this season. He has thrown for 1,937 yards, 12 touchdowns and six interceptions (three coming in Week 1 against the Baltimore Ravens). This has come with virtually no running game and no offensive line.

New England is nearly unbeatable coming off their bye week under Bill Belichick. This is the perfect game to prove all the naysayers wrong by tearing up the Patriots defense and leading the Pittsburgh Steelers to their second victory against Tom Brady.

Tom Brady

Tom Brady and the spread-you-out offense of the Patriots is how you defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers. Their corners play about 10-15 yards off the wide receivers on most occasions, and Brady exploits that to a tee.

All Brady did last season in Pittsburgh was go 30-for-43 for 350 yards and three touchdowns against a team that went to the Super Bowl.

New England is the one team that always gives the Steelers problems. It seems like every team in sports has that one team that gives them matchup problems.

Brady is 6-1 in his career against the Steelers, and he will provide another quality offensive performance against the Pittsburgh pass defense that is ranked No. 2 in the NFL.

That statistic is blown out of proportion, though. They have played Seattle, Indianapolis, Arizona, Jacksonville and Tennessee on the season, all teams with average to below-average quarterbacks.

Great quarterbacks that have quick releases kill the Steelers. Look at Brady, Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees—all are quarterbacks that have lit the Steelers up in the past.

We will learn more about just how good that secondary is on Sunday.