Now that the 2016 NFL season has concluded with Tom Brady and the New England Patriots earning their fifth Super Bowl title, it's time to check in on the season that was around the fake football world. 

We start by giving you our final quarterback rankings, looking at each starter at this position by tier. We will factor in a whole host of different things, including final fantasy ranking and fantasy consistency. 

The elite-level rankings didn't stray from the overall rankings at all here. Rodgers and Ryan finished first and second in points and consistency respectively. That's what top-level fantasy players do. They find a way to be consistently good throughout the season

 And right there, that's why we take an extra importance in consistency. After all, if a player were to put up 40 percent of his fantasy points in two starts, he's not really a top-end fantasy player in the other 14 weeks he suits up. This has been lost on those who set their draft boards based almost entirely on rankings from previous seasons. 

For his part, Rodgers tallied 20-plus fantasy points in 11 of his 16 regular season starts. If you were to average his bottom-three fantasy performances together and multiply them by a 16-game schedule, Rodgers would still have finished as a mid-tier QB2 option. 

The same can almost be said for Ryan. He tallied 20-plus fantasy points in nine of his 16 regular season starts and saw himself average nearly 13 points in his three worst outings. 

Brees was a bit further down on the totem pole here. He finished sixth in fantasy consistency and actually put up 30 percent of his fantasy points in three starts. Even then, the Saints' future Hall of Fame quarterback averaged enough points in his other 13 starts to make him a bottom-end QB2 option in 12-team leagues. 

This is where it gets really interesting. Yes, we have Prescott as the fourth-best fantasy quarterback from the 2016 season despite finishing blind Andrew Luck and Kirk Cousins in fantasy points. As a mid-tier QB1 option in 12-team leagues it's still astonishing that Prescott finished eighth at his position in fantasy consistency (game with 15-plus fantasy points). 

That's an absurd level of consistency from a rookie quarterback. And considering Prescott's ADP preseason had him as barely a rosterable option even in larger leagues, this is magnified even further. 

All said, Prescott put up 20-plus fantasy points in six of his 15 full games. His averages were also a bit marred by the fact that the rookie put up just a cameo performance against Philadelphia in Dallas' meaningless Week 17 loss. Outside of that, he averaged 19.1 fantasy points per game. 

Despite his team's struggles, Luck was darn good from a fantasy standpoint for the Indianapolis Colts. He finished fourth in both fantasy points and consistency. This left us wondering whether he should have been ranked ahead of both Drew Brees and Dak Prescott. The issue here is that Luck missed a game to injury and put up less than 14 fantasy points in 20 percent of his starts during the regular season. That dropped him down a tier here. 

Speaking of dropping down a tier here, Cousins would have normally been in the elite tier. Unfortunately, him averaging just 13.3 fantasy points in Weeks 14 and 15 sure hurt fantasy owners. Also important to note, 28 percent of his fantasy points came in just three starts. 

The most-interesting addition to this tier has to be a quarterback in Tyrod Taylor who was benched by the hapless Buffalo Bills for Week 17. Taylor actually had a statistically solid season for his team, putting up 23 touchdowns compared to six interceptions. 

While Taylor wasn't elite in anything he did, he surely acted as a consistent QB1 option throughout the season. Consider this: The second-year starter finished third among quarterbacks in fantasy consistency, putting up 15-plus fantasy points in 11 of his 15 starts. That's a better level of consistency than Andrew Luck, Tom Brady and Drew Brees. Wow. 

Rivers almost made the near-elite tear after finishing in the top 10 in both fantasy points and fantasy consistency. Unfortunately, you can't hit that level after leading the NFL with 21 interceptions during the regular season. There were games where Rivers absolutely stunk it up during the stretch run. Here's a guy that tallied a grand total of 42.4 points during a three-game stretch from Week 13-15. That's not going to get it done, especially during the fantasy football season's stretch run. 

We also had to push Stafford down a tad here. He finished four spots lower in consistency than overall fantasy points. In fact, nearly 30 percent of his fantasy stats came in just three of his starts. Outside of those three games, Stafford was not consistently a QB1 option. That's a problem. 

Speaking of problems, fantasy players who conducted their drafts early in the process, were left without Tom Brady after he dropped the appeal of the four-game suspension he received for his alleged involvement in Deflategate. That's a quarter of the season. But once Brady did return to the field, he was absolutely dominating — finishing 18th in fantasy points and fifth in fantasy consistency. In fact, Brady put up 15-plus fantasy points in all but three of his starts. One of the times he failed to hit that plateau, he put up 14.9 points. Extrapolated over the course of a 16-game season, Brady would have finished as the the third-best fantasy quarterback.