Jameis Winston
New York GiantsJameis Winston has 957 passing yards, 7 touchdown passes, 5 interceptions and 50 rushing yards in 5 games for the New York Giants this season through Week 8, 13.5 PPR points a game (updated November 5, 2026).
Model Score by season
Up 1.7 from last season.
How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →
STM Take
A boom-or-bust backup with the highest ceiling of any reserve.
The case for
- Still produces explosive single-game outputs when given the keys: three 26+ PPR games across 2024-2025 (32.98, 32.24, 26.6) is a profile no other current backup matches.
- Arm talent has aged better than his mobility; he can still attack downfield in clean pockets. The Tampa peak (tier 4, #14 STTM in 2018-2019) is the ceiling reference point.
The worry
- Tier 7 in back-to-back seasons (#25, #27) shows the model no longer sees him as a starter. His career interception rate around 3.3% is among the worst for any QB with 5,000+ attempts.
- The 0 PPR Wk 15 2025 and the -0.36 Wk 15 2024 show how bad the bottom still is when defenses bait him into deep throws. The 30-INT 2019 season was not a fluke; it was the profile.
What to watch: Whether the Giants give him meaningful 2026 starts behind their younger options or commit fully to a different direction after the season opener.
Full take and bio
The variance is the whole story. Winston still throws the deep ball and posts 30-point fantasy games (32.24 PPR Wk 12 2025, 32.98 PPR Wk 13 2024), but the boom/bust profile from his Tampa years is now compressed onto a smaller workload. Two straight tier 7 finishes (#27 NYG, #25 CLE) confirm he is no longer a starting-quality answer, even though he remains the league's highest-ceiling backup if you can stomach the floor.
Winston came out of Florida State as the 2013 Heisman winner and #1 overall pick by Tampa Bay in 2015. He posted the famous 33-touchdown, 30-interception 2019 season, the only quarterback in NFL history to clear 30 in both categories, while also leading the league in passing yards (5,109). New Orleans signed him as Drew Brees's replacement in 2020 and his only full starter season ended on a torn ACL in 2021. He has since been a high-arm-talent, high-variance backup with brief starter stretches in Cleveland (2024) and New York (2025).
Comps
The players whose size, testing and production looked most like his at the same point in their careers. The percent is how close.
Boomer Esiason ’9580%
Jacoby Brissett ’2670%Gus Frerotte ’0564%
Matt Hasselbeck ’1061%Plays like: Case Keenum, Drew Bledsoe, Jason Campbell. Built like: Tom Savage, Chad Henne, A.J. McCarron. Coming out: Blake Bortles, Sam Bradford.
Of his 20 closest coming out: 2 stars, 4 starters, 6 backups, 8 didn't stick.
Jameis Winston Injury StatusNot listed
Jameis Winston is not on the injury report as of Nov 4. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.
This season · 5 games
13.5 fantasy points a game, 67 PPR on the season. Every game on the Game Log, every season on Career. Advanced numbers are EPA and Next Gen Stats.
Contract2026 cap
Every year of the deal, the dead money and what a cut or trade saves on the Contract tab.
Fantasy outlookWeek 9
Our rest-of-season board has Jameis Winston at QB37 (the public consensus says QB38); the model has 56 PPR points left for him this season.
Price a trade for him on the fantasy trade calculator, or see the whole board on the Fantasy hub.
Draft & College
Round 1, pick 1 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2015, out of Florida State (ACC). He went about where consensus had him.
In college, 2014, 13 games: 3,796 pass yds, 25 TD, 18 INT, 63.0% completions. (partial record) Coming out: 4.97s 40 yd, 28.5" vertical, 103" broad, 7.16s 3-cone, 4.36s shuttle.
Recruited
Class of 2012 · Quarterback · High school: Hueytown, AL
Florida StateHis offer board, and the recruits whose boards look like it now →