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Baker Mayfield to the Carolina Panthers: Measuring the Fantasy Football Impact
The Panthers traded for quarterback Baker Mayfield. Are they better off with Sam Darnold, or can Mayfield elevate the offense?

There is, perhaps, no more important position in all of sports than quarterback, and NFL teams that don't have a franchise quarterback will spend their offseasons planning ways to find one.

While the Carolina Panthers may still consider sticking with Sam Darnold under center, their trade for Baker Mayfield likely says otherwise.

Let's dig into each passer's efficiency and see what that might mean for key fantasy football options such as Christian McCaffrey, DJ Moore, and -- well -- I guess that's really it.

Baker Mayfield vs. Sam Darnold

So, at numberFire, we have a metric called fantasy football projection model on the back of a 4,046-yard, 23.0-touchdown, 15.6-interception season. He is the QB31 in best-ball average draft position on FanDuel.

Christian McCaffrey (the RB3 on FanDuel) remains our RB2 in half-PPR formats and is projected for north of 400 opportunities and 2,000 scrimmage yards. His workload can be -- at his peak -- unmatched.

DJ Moore is our WR10 in half-PPR setups and is projected for a 156-target, 1,256-yard, 6.3-touchdown season. That's above the average target total (when accounting for the extra game in the season now). Despite this, he's being drafted as the WR28 in best-ball formats.

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