We give you our ranks, player value, tier posi­tion, aver­age draft posi­tion for both 10 and 12 team leagues, and our auc­tion values.

You can change them up, take away what­ever you want, add what­ever you want. Run­ning back and wide out lists com­ing in the next few days. Enjoy!

2007 Cus­tomiz­able Quar­ter­back Cheat Sheet (.xls)

Cus­tomiz­able cheat sheets are on the way, but here are our rank­ings and some expla­na­tion behind the order. Enjoy.

1) Car­son Palmer — Right, right. This is blas­phemy. How can the Golden One not be your top ranked quar­ter­back? Blah blah blah. Here are the facts: Pey­ton Man­ning has lead fan­tasy quar­ter­back scor­ing exactly one time in his nine year career. Palmer has lead fan­tasy quar­ter­back scor­ing once in his three year career. And, oh yeah, he out­paced Man­ning that sea­son. Last year started slowly as he recov­ered from the greu­some leg injury, and with every­thing going well so far this sum­mer, there’s no rea­son he can’t hit over 4,000 yards and 30 touch­downs again this season.

2) Pey­ton Man­ning — He finally got over the hump and lead all fan­tasy quar­ter­back scor­ing. It was the first time he accom­plished this, and it wouldn’t have hap­pened had Dono­van McN­abb stayed healthy or Drew Brees not sucked in his last cou­ple games. But that’s ok. I’m not bit­ter. Now, I didn’t actu­ally see how the Colts did in the play­offs. But I have to assume they exited in the sec­ond round. Aw, those lov­able Colts.

3) Drew Brees — Was it a fluke sea­son for Brees? Until mov­ing to the bayou, Brees was always con­sid­ered a top tier backup fan­tasy quar­ter­back. Sud­denly, Brees became as pro­duc­tive as any sig­nal caller in the league. He teamed up with a cou­ple rook­ies, Mar­ques Col­ston and Reg­gie Bush, to get this done. Both of those guys are still around and there’s no rea­son to believe the for­mer Boil­er­maker will fall too much. Yes, 2006 was a career year, but 3,800 yards and 25 touch­downs seems rea­son­able for this season.

4) Tom Brady — The Patri­ots decided to try a lit­tle exper­i­ment. What would hap­pen if a fran­chise quar­ter­back, a player com­ing off of a 4,100 yard 26 touch­down sea­son, and one of the most effi­cient play­ers in the league were given basi­cally no tal­ent around him? Well, com­ple­tions stayed the same. Attempts stayed about the same. The com­ple­tion per­cent­age went down slightly. But there is one sta­tis­tic that sticks out. Yards per attempt. Brady had been hov­er­ing around 7.8 for the pre­vi­ous two sea­sons, but that fell to 6.8 last year. The touch­down total of 24 was solid, but his 3,500 yards was his low­est total since 2001. The Patri­ots brought in Randy Moss, Donté Stall­worth, and Wes Welker. That makes the New Eng­land receiv­ing core about, oh, I dunno 27 times bet­ter than last sea­son. Ide­ally for Billy Belichek, the Pats will rely on the run as much as pos­si­ble, but the best laid plans of mice and men (Even men as per­fect as Bill) go awry. Expect 3,800 yards and 25 touch­downs, but Brady will do it with much more incon­sis­tency than Brees.

5) Marc Bul­ger — Bul­ger had quite the odd sea­son. He started off with two ter­ri­ble games, got things going, suc­ceeded after Orlando Pace was injured at first, then strug­gled, then fin­ished the sea­son strong. Oh, and he was sacked a ton despite the Rams often using max pro­tec­tion. Oh, and he fin­ished with 4,300 yards and 24 touch­downs. The main play­ers are still in town this sea­son, so I don’t think those num­bers will be too much dif­fer­ent. But with Bulger’s injury his­tory, he remains a high risk/high reward pick.

6) Dono­van McN­abb — Talk­ing about high risk/high reward play­ers, McN­abb is the ulti­mate. The Eagles tend to throw, throw, throw, throw, run, and then throw some more. The biggest prob­lem is that three of the last five years, McN­abb hasn’t made it to fan­tasy play­off time before suf­fer­ing a major injury. He is still  being val­ued in the end of the sec­ond tier of quar­ter­backs, but if you do take McN­abb, be pre­pared to take another quar­ter­back rather soon. I wouldn’t want any­one to go into the sea­son hav­ing McN­abb and, say, Char­lie Frye as a backup.

7) Matt Leinart — Two names: Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzger­ald. Those two ensure that Leinart has to be a top 10 fan­tasy quar­ter­back. Last sea­son, Leinart came in as a rookie and played, well, alright. The .91 TD to INT ratio isn’t the shini­est of sta­tis­tics but there will be expec­ta­tions of improve­ment this sea­son. The prob­lem, though, is the touch­down total. We have very lit­tle worry that Leinart will throw for over 3,500 yards. In fact, we wouldn’t be sur­prised to see him approach 4,000. Unfor­tu­nately, any­thing above 22 touch­downs would be a surprise.

Philip Rivers — I am higher on Rivers than Derek is. I have him at seven in my count­down while my mis­guided pal put him at nine. Basi­cally, I think he will be the pic­ture of con­sis­tency this year. Rivers had only three games with­out a touch­down pass last sea­son and half of his games resulted in two or more scores. That puts Rivers just a rung below Man­ning and Palmer and ahead of Brady, Brees, and Bul­ger. On the other side of the coin, Rivers only had one three touch­down game and two 300 yard pass­ing days. Essen­tially, you know what you’re get­ting from Rivers. He’s the Rudi John­son of quar­ter­backs this season.

9) Jon Kitna — The opin­ions on Kitna seem to run the gamut enter­ing the 2007 sea­son. There are those who feel as though Calvin John­son is the next com­ing of Randy Moss, which means Kitna would be a sure bet for 4,000 yards and 27 or 28 touch­downs. There are oth­ers who think John­son will come along slowly, just like almost every other rookie wide­out. Those peo­ple think Kitna is more of a 3,500 20 TD guy who will toss a ton of inter­cep­tions. We think that If you sit on a quar­ter­back in your draft, tak­ing Kitna late is a wor­thy risk.

10) Tony Romo — Some of y’all are being awfully hard on this guy. When a first year starter comes in and gets 19 touch­downs in 12 games, there’s usu­ally a lot of hype sur­round­ing the guy next year. And when said player gets to throw to a top wide out, fan­tasy freaks over­value the player. But I guess a fum­bled play­off snap changes some hearts. He is being val­ued any­where from eighth to 15th, but tak­ing him as a starter feels legitimate.

11) Vince Young — While I have Young sit­ting at 14 in my rank­ings, Derek has him towards the back of the top 10. The pos­i­tives are clear. He’s an ath­letic quar­ter­back who can make things hap­pen with his feet. As a long pro­po­nent of Mike Vick as a legit­i­mate fan­tasy starter, I have no prob­lem believ­ing a good run­ning quar­ter­back can be a top top player. Sadly, it would help if Young had ANYONE to throw the ball to. Even Vick had Alge Crum­pler. Young has, well, let me check the depth chart. Ah yes, Bran­don Jones, David Givens, and Ben Troupe. Maybe the run­ning back posi­tion will help out in the receiv­ing game? Oh, wait…LenDale White had only 14 recep­tions last year for 60 yards. Unless he can run for 75 yards a game, I don’t expect Young to be a wor­thy starter for fan­tasy teams.

12) Jay Cut­ler — All Cut­ler did last year was throw for nine touch­downs in five games. It wasn’t just the num­bers, but the poise he showed. His long bomb touch­down to Javon Walker against Ari­zona might have been the most impres­sive pass any quar­ter­back had all sea­son. Does that mean he is des­tined for a 3,500 yard and 25 touch­down sea­son? Nor­mally, I’d say no, but there’s just some­thing about the kid. My gut tells me he’s got a chance.

13) Brett Favre — I just don’t think there’s much to say about Favre. He hasn’t retired and he still has Don­ald Dri­ver to throw to. Greg Jen­nings came in as a rookie in 2006 and had an impres­sive cam­paign. If he evolves into a con­sis­tent threat, it could mean Favre would be worth start­ing again. It will also be inter­est­ing to see how rookie run­ning back Bran­don Jack­son takes the pres­sure off of Favre and how he han­dles the receiv­ing aspect of the posi­tion. Favre makes a solid backup. Think 3,500 yards and 20 touchdowns.

14) Ben Roeth­lis­berger — Full con­fes­sion time. I entered this sea­son with Vick, Romo, and Roeth­lis­berger as the quar­ter­backs on my dynasty team. Need­less to say, I’ve had a rough August from that per­spec­tive. So the nat­ural ques­tion I’ve been ask­ing myself is whether I feel com­fort­able going into the sea­son with Roeth­lis­berger hav­ing to play a big role for me. First, the bad news. The Steel­ers quar­ter­back threw 23 inter­cep­tions, a total higher than his 2004 and 2005 inter­cep­tion totals com­bined. Now, the excuse. The dude nearly died twice last year. That has to count for some­thing. So here’s the good news. After week five, Roeth­lis­berger only had one game with­out a touch­down. On top of that, his yardage num­bers were far and away the best of his career. 3,500 and 20 touch­downs sounds rea­son­able, but his ceil­ing puts him in the top 10.

15) Matt Has­sel­beck — We’re sorry for those in the Seat­tle area, but the prospects for the Sea­hawks this sea­son aren’t good. In fact, I would put every offen­sive player on the team other than DJ Hack­ett as a bust can­di­date. And that includes Has­sel­beck, who had a woe­fully incon­sis­tent 2006 sea­son. Now, with­out his best wide­out, Has­sel­beck is sup­posed to improve his play. We don’t see that hap­pen­ing. With so many bet­ter options at the same value, we advise pass­ing on this passer.

16) Alex Smith — Being a first year full-time starter with­out much tal­ent in the receiv­ing posi­tions can be a tough life. Frank Gore proved to be an extremely use­ful com­mod­ity for Smith, but highly hyped Ver­non Davis bat­tled injuries and Anto­nio Bryant sput­tered after two strong games to start the sea­son. Dar­rell Jack­son, when healthy, will help sta­bi­lize Smith. He was a nice pickup. Davis, mean­while, just needs play­ing time to prove his worth. If Gore doesn’t regress, there’s no rea­son to believe Smith won’t push his num­bers to 3,000 yards and over 20 touchdowns.

17) Eli Man­ning — Who the hell turns down San Diego? The weather alone makes it one of the best places to play. Throw in one of the best run­ning backs in NFL his­tory and a tight end that could out­jump Dwight Howard, and even I could be the quar­ter­back for the Charg­ers. Eli’s (or, let’s be hon­est, Archie’s) deci­sion should go down as one of the worst pro­fes­sional choices any NFL player has ever made. I don’t even want to talk about this year. It’s like pass­ing on the chance to play with Jor­dan. It’s like pass­ing on play­ing in the same jazz band as Brad Mehldau. You just don’t do it.

18) Jake Del­homme — We have arrived at the point of the rank­ings where play­ers are here because some experts will put them as high as 10, but there’s no way they will end up on our teams. Derek and I have never been the biggest Del­homme fans, and it’s become clear the Pan­thers quar­ter­back will never again be a start­ing fan­tasy quar­ter­back. More than half of his starts last sea­son ended with fewer than 200 yards pass­ing. This is despite hav­ing arguably the most dan­ger­ous wide out in the league at his dis­posal. The Pan­thers brought in David Carr, and we wouldn’t be sur­prised to see Del­homme on the bench sooner rather than later this season.

19) JP Los­man — Los­man is get­ting mixed reviews in fan­tasy pub­li­ca­tions this pre­sea­son. Derek has a long stand­ing, non­sen­si­cal hatred of the guy, but I remain mostly apa­thetic. Lee Evans is a fine top wide out. He proved last year that even with get­ting all of the atten­tion, he can blow past cov­er­ages. The prob­lem for Los­man is that there’s no one else to go to. Rookie run­ning back Mar­Shawn Lynch should be a bet­ter receiver than Willis McGa­hee, but that can only go so far. A sec­ond wide out or a top tight end would get my enthu­si­as­tic about hav­ing Los­man as a backup, but, as it stands now, he’s a bot­tom of the road insur­ance policy.

20) Rex Gross­man — Are you feel­ing lucky? There were only three games last sea­son where Gross­man didn’t throw for at least two touch­downs or at least two inter­cep­tions. The prob­lem is, he did the for­mer seven times and the lat­ter six times. In a way, this is the per­fect backup player if you take Palmer or Man­ning. You know you’ll need him one time, and there’s a 50% chance he’ll give you two or more touch­downs that week. What other player taken in round eight can you say that about? Just, don’t dare start him twice or you’ll have to deal with the wrath.

21) Steve McNair — The good news is that the offense in Bal­ti­more is look­ing pretty good. Willis McGa­hee will be by default much more use­ful out of the back­field than Jamal Lewis was. Mark Clay­ton is enter­ing his third year, which should ben­e­fit McNair. And, as always, Todd Heap is one of the top safety valves in the league. The bad news is that the Ravens would much rather run the ball than throw too much. And the McGa­hee sign­ing didn’t change that. In deeper leagues, McNair will be a weak backup.

22) Jason Camp­bell — His knee scare ear­lier this pre­sea­son didn’t help Campbell’s value, which was already as noth­ing more than a late round flier. If you have lots of ros­ter space, took a top quar­ter­back and a decent backup, then Camp­bell at least has some upward mobil­ity. There’s just not a lot of excite­ment here.

23) Chad Pen­ning­ton — Par­don me while I yawn. Jer­ri­cho Cotch­ery and Lav­er­neous Coles are a decent com­bi­na­tion, but Pen­ning­ton doesn’t look down­field all that much and the Jets offense can be described by what­ever word is one step above comatose. I’d per­son­ally rather have Tavaris Jackson.

24) Byron Left­wich — Any­one can find some­thing neg­a­tive to say about Left­wich. It takes a true pro to make it seem as though he won’t be a com­plete dis­as­ter. Okay. Here it goes. Left­wich has the best rap­port with the best receiver on the team, Reg­gie Williams. With Lord Byron at quar­ter­back, Williams looked like, well, almost a real wide out. He scored four times in the first six games. Then, David Gar­rard decided that, umm, no one would be his main tar­get. It all worked out pretty poorly. Here’s my point. Left­wich and Williams can form a pow­er­ful duo which would make both fan­tasy fac­tors. Woo! I did it!

25) Matt Schaub — A lot of expec­ta­tions are being placed on Schaub, who has started a total of two games in his NFL career. But there are two things worth men­tion­ing. The first is Andre John­son, who is eas­ily a top 10 wide out tal­ent. If Schaub can develop a rap­port with the for­mer Hur­ri­cane, then maybe every­thing will be okay. The other point of inter­est is Ahman Green. Hous­ton has long used (and needed) their run­ning backs in the receiv­ing game. Green knows a thing or two about that aspect of the game, as he has sur­passed 50 recep­tions three times in his career. Now, if Schaub is okay with being sacked 150 times, every­thing should work out.