By now, you all know my position on the quarterback position. I’m waiting on the best option in my draft.

Running backs and wide receivers are the key to building a solid foundation for your fantasy football team. Every once in awhile, that mindset will bite me, like in 2013 when Peyton Manning went crazy, far outdistancing the second-best option.

But for the most part, I feel comfortable in waiting. Last year, it bit me a little bit, since I drafted quarterback Sam Bradford, with Philip Rivers as a backup. Bradford was horrendous and Rivers was inconsistent.

But I still had some solid outings from Rivers and my running backs were four-deep at one point, allowing me to make a trade later in the season for an upgrade at the wide receiver position.

Had I overreached for a quarterback and whiffed, and not built up my running backs, my team would have never competed for a title. There are some competent quarterbacks later in the fantasy football drafts, while inconsistent at times, can put up major numbers with the right matchups.

I already called out Drew Brees as a quarterback I’m skipping on draft day, so here’s one more overrated quarterback I’m not drafting for my team.

Carson Palmer led the Cardinals to a solid record last year. Flickr/http://bit.ly/1LFpzex
Carson Palmer led the Cardinals to a solid record last year. Flickr/http://bit.ly/1LFpzex

Carson Palmer, Arizona

I get why Palmer is a top-10 quarterback in fantasy football drafts. He still has weapons and Arizona isn’t going anywhere in terms of being a playoff contender.

However, he’s 36 years old and I can’t shake his NFC Championship performance from my mind.

He was awful. He was injured, so that’s been the main excuse. And if I’m a fantasy football owner, that makes me even more worried.

Palmer hasn’t been immune from injury in his career. In the last five seasons, he’s missed significant time in two of those seasons. He also hasn’t been the epitome of greatness either, with last season being the first time his quarterback rating has been more than 100 since 2005 with the Bengals.

He had a resurgent year last season, but that can’t continue for an entire season again this year. His number 1 target, Larry Fitzgerald, is only getting older, and while he has other emerging weapons like David Johnson and John Brown, I don’t see Palmer having back-to-back Pro Bowl caliber seasons in his mid-30s.

He currently owns the seventh-highest average draft position among quarterbacks. That’s too steep of a price for a quarterback who only two years ago, we were wondering if he would even be in the NFL.

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