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Matthew Stafford
LMD QB Tier 3 for Week 9 · 15.7 projected Standard points
In season
Week 9 fantasy ranking
We project 15.7 points this week, QB Tier 3. The middle 80% of simulated scores runs 6.3 - 26.4 points. Top 3: 10% · Top 12: 43% · Top 24: 85% of simulated weeks.
Week 9
QB Tier 3
15.3 - 16.4 projected points
Projected
15.7
week 9, Standard
Top 12
43%
Top 3: 10% · Top 24: 85% at QB
Movement
↓ 1
QB12 in Week 8, QB13 now
Should you start Matthew Stafford in Week 9?
Borderline
It is close. LMD ranks Matthew Stafford QB13 for Week 9, just outside the QB12 starter line. He finishes inside QB12 in 43% of simulated weeks.
The starter line is a standard 12-team lineup's, and is the line LMD's weekly accuracy review grades this board against.
- Draft / market prior
- Neutral+0.01 pts
- Recent usage & efficiency
- Slight negative-0.20 pts
- AvailabilityStarting job share
- Negative-0.82 pts
- Outside projection
- Slight positive+0.13 pts
- Betting markets
- No mean changeNarrower range-0.06 pts
Why isn’t matchup a separate factor?
How to read
- Full model minus the model without each factor.
- Effects are not additive or changes in rank.
- Recent data includes its effect on blending weights.
- A range note means a factor moved the spread and not the expected points.
Standard scoring · Updated November 5, 2026
LMD Rankings are produced by Let's Mock Draft's own statistical and market model. They are not analyst rankings: consensus boards are not an input, and nothing is edited by hand.
Updates
Recent updates
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Matthew Stafford a full participant Thursday
Yahoo Sports ·
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Matthew Stafford, Sean Payton, Mike Macdonald Headline 2026 NFL Salute to Service Award Finalists
Bleacher Report ·
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STATUS
Matthew Stafford is no longer listed on the injury report.
Let's Mock Draft ·
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Rams’ Matthew Stafford provides update on right elbow injury ahead of Week 9 vs. Commanders
clutchpoints.com ·
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Former NFL QB Chris Simms raises concerns about Rams' Matthew Stafford dealing with elbow soreness
yardbarker.com ·
Headlines from other publishers, discovered automatically and matched to Matthew Stafford by name -- we did not write these and we do not host them, and each one opens at the publisher who did. Status changes are the club designation carried on our player data, not a report of our own.
Season performance
Performance vs. projection
Over 8 completed games Matthew Stafford has averaged +0.5 points a game against what we projected before kickoff.
| Week | Opp | Proj | Actual | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | vs SF | 15.6 | 4.1 | -11.5 |
| Wk 2 | vs NYG | 13.5 | 27.0 | +13.5 |
| Wk 3 | @ DEN | 15.1 | 20.9 | +5.8 |
| Wk 4 | @ PHI | 15.1 | 9.7 | -5.4 |
| Wk 5 | vs BUF | 17.6 | 27.3 | +9.7 |
| Wk 6 | vs ARI | 19.0 | 16.9 | -2.1 |
| Wk 7 | @ LV | 16.2 | 17.5 | +1.3 |
| Wk 8 | vs LAC | 15.6 | 8.3 | -7.3 |
| Wk 9 | @ WAS | 15.7 | — | — |
Each week's projection is the last one Let's Mock Draft published before that game kicked off, recorded at the time and never recalculated afterwards. The shaded band is the middle 80% of that week's simulated outcomes. Actual points are scored from official statistics under the scoring rule selected above.
Draft Return
How he compares with his draft price
The draft market had him at QB8. This week LMD has him 5 spots lower, at QB13.
Preseason market: QB8 · ADP 72.8
Season to date
Ranking what he has actually scored needs every player's season, and that board is not published yet.
Rest of season
No current board ranks him, so there is nothing to compare his draft price with.
Week 9
QB13 −5
LMD has him 5 spots lower than his QB8 draft price.
Standard scoring · benchmark September 9, 2026
Season to date is what he has actually scored, ranked among his position. Rest of season and this week are LMD's current expectations rather than results. All three are compared with where the draft market had him before the season started.
QB8 is where Fantasy Football Calculator had him on September 9, 2026, the last board taken before the season's first kickoff. Later boards absorb what has happened since, so they are a current market rather than a draft price.
Dynasty
Long-term value
LMD's dynasty model has Matthew Stafford #55 in 1QB and #29 in Superflex, QB13 at his position. Age 38.
1QB
#55
QB13 · tier 15 · of 300
Superflex
#29
QB13 · tier 7 · of 307
- Last season 350.4 pts 20.6 per game, half-PPR scoring, in the games he played.
- Availability 96% Share of his team's games he played over the seasons the model reads.
- History 3 seasons Seasons of production the model read; more history is weighed more confidently.
- Attempts 34.2 / game Pass attempts per game, the opportunity the projection is built on.
LMD dynasty model 1.2.0: a 3-season projection from observed NFL statistics, priced above a lineup's replacement level. Our own ranking, not an ADP, a consensus or a market price. Updated October 2026.
Draft season Draft position and availability
ADP, draft range, availability at a pick and who goes around him, measured over 10,000 simulated 12-team Standard 1QB drafts.
Simulated draft position
Where he goes
Simulation average
7.12
pick 84.0 overall, averaged over every simulated draft
Median pick
7.12
half of simulations take him by pick 84
Draft range
6.08 - 9.03
the middle 80% of simulations (P10-P90)
Simulations
10,000
drafted in every one
Filters
League format
Availability
Odds he reaches your pick
Available at 7.12 in 53% of simulations
Pick 84 overall in a 12-team draft · 10,000 simulations
From draft slot 12, the same seat picks again at 8.01, where he is available in 49% of simulations.
Slot 12's remaining turns: 7.12 53% · 8.01 49% · 9.12 3% · 10.01 3% · 11.12 <1% · 12.01 <1% · 13.12 <1% · 14.01 <1% · 15.12 0%
The middle half of simulations take him between 7.05 and 8.07.
| Pick | Available |
|---|---|
| 7.10 | 60% |
| 7.11 | 57% |
| 7.12 | 53% |
| 8.01 | 49% |
| 8.02 | 45% |
| 8.03 | 41% |
| 8.04 | 37% |
| 8.05 | 33% |
| 8.06 | 30% |
| 8.07 | 26% |
| 8.08 | 23% |
| 8.09 | 21% |
| 8.10 | 18% |
| 8.11 | 16% |
| 8.12 | 14% |
Distribution
Draft position distribution
| Pick | Share of simulations | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 6.08-6.09 | 2% | 245 of 10000 simulations |
| 6.10-6.11 | 3% | 342 of 10000 simulations |
| 6.12-7.01 | 3% | 320 of 10000 simulations |
| 7.02-7.03 | 4% | 425 of 10000 simulations |
| 7.04-7.05 | 5% | 470 of 10000 simulations |
| 7.06-7.07 | 6% | 598 of 10000 simulations |
| 7.08-7.09 | 7% | 657 of 10000 simulations |
| 7.10-7.11 | 8% | 763 of 10000 simulations |
| 7.12-8.01 | 8% | 782 of 10000 simulations |
| 8.02-8.03 | 8% | 821 of 10000 simulations |
| 8.04-8.05 | 7% | 704 of 10000 simulations |
| 8.06-8.07 | 6% | 637 of 10000 simulations |
| 8.08-8.09 | 5% | 505 of 10000 simulations |
| 8.10-8.11 | 4% | 380 of 10000 simulations |
| 8.12-9.01 | 3% | 297 of 10000 simulations |
| 9.02-9.03 | 3% | 254 of 10000 simulations |
Draft context
Who goes around him
Measured over the 10000 simulations in which Matthew Stafford was drafted.
Usually taken just before
- Tony Pollard RB · TEN 3%
- Sam LaPorta TE · DET 3%
- Brock Purdy QB · SF 2%
- Caleb Williams QB · CHI 2%
Usually taken just after
- Chuba Hubbard RB · CAR 2%
- Tyler Warren TE · IND 2%
- Harold Fannin Jr. TE · CLE 2%
- Sam LaPorta TE · DET 2%
Methodology
How this is measured
Every figure on this page comes from a Monte Carlo batch of 10,000 simulated 12-team Standard 1QB drafts, each one played out pick by pick by the same simulated managers that fill an empty seat in a live room.
Matthew Stafford was selected in 10000 of those 10000 drafts. Every probability here rests on that count.
Each player's expected draft position starts from Fantasy Football Calculator's aggregate ADP as of November 5, 2026; the simulated managers move him from there. Players it does not price keep a price inferred from our own rankings.
A reach or a fall on this page is measured against Fantasy Football Calculator's aggregate ADP where it prices a player, and against a price inferred from our own rankings where it does not.
- Simulation model
- simulation-v1.2
- Generated
- November 5, 2026
- Player dataset
- nflverse-2026@c60914d598b9e57d
- Baseline
- mixed
- Market prior
- ADP data from Fantasy Football Calculator (2026-11-05)
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