C.J. Stroud: Jordan Love or C.J. Stroud: Which QB should I draft in Fantasy Football 2025?

Both Jordan Love and C.J. Stroud have emerged as two of the most exciting quarterbacks in all of football over the past two seasons. Whereas Love spent the first few years of his career learning and developing behind future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Stroud was thrown into the NFL-style game right away.

Since becoming the Green Bay Packers and Houston Texans starters, the story is quite similar between Love and Stroud to this point. Both individuals were amazing in their first year as starters and struggled somewhat with inconsistency, turnovers and decision-making in their second campaign.

For Love, he saw his passing total decrease by 770 yards. Meanwhile, Stroud saw his interceptions total increase from five to 12, in addition to a sharp yardage decline. Due to this, fantasy managers may be unsure which quarterback to target in fantasy football this year if both are still on the board in your draft.

Let's take a look at who you should target.

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Jordan Love fantasy football outlook

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Jordan Love is an exciting quarterback with a major arm, top accuracy and strong mobility. However, should you select Love in fantasy football this year, know that turnovers are part of the high-risk, high-reward style of game that he plays. He has back-to-back seasons with double-digit interceptions (11) and three or more fumbles each year as well.

In fantasy football, Love has finished as the QB5 and the QB17 over the past two seasons. FantasyPros is projecting Love as the QB17 this year.

C.J. Stroud fantasy football outlook

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C.J. Stroud is an extremely accurate quarterback who also has a big arm, good mobility and top decision-making. His fantasy football stock does take a slight decline this year as questions about the skill position players around him are there, namely, Stefon Diggs, Tank Dell and Joe Mixon, all either leaving the club or being injured to start the year.

Stroud has finished as the QB11 and the QB18 over the past two NFL seasons. He is currently being projected by FantasyPros as the QB19 this year.

Jordan Love or C.J. Stroud: Who should you draft?

We used Sportskeeda's Fantasy Football draft predictor to see whether advanced analytics point toward managers selecting Jordan Love or C.J. Stroud this year.

According to the predictor, Love and Stroud have similar statistical outlooks this year. However, Stroud appears to be the slightly stronger fantasy football option in 2025.

To this point, Love and Stroud have had one season in the QB1 range and another in the QB2 range as well. In 2025, both quarterbacks should be viewed as safe QB2s with weekly QB1 upside.

About the author

Joshua Gillesby is a College Sports journalist at Sportskeeda who graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor's in Arts & Science.

Josh is based in Ontario, Canada and his favorite college team is the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, due in large part to his former hockey team being invited for a tour of the facilities and watching a game while there.

His favorite past college football player is Joe Burrow, as his 2019 season was incredible and a major reason behind LSU's playoff success and National Championship.

Outside of work, Josh enjoys traveling, reading, writing, and science.

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Edited by Joshua Gillesby