Build a regex and use placeholders.

#!perl
use strict;
use DBI;
use Data::Dump 'pp';

my $dbh = get_dbh(); # connect

# field names
my @fname = qw(QB RB1 RB2 WR1 WR2 WR3 TE FLEX DST);
my $fld = join ',',@fname;

# placeholders
my $ph = '?'.(',?' x $#fname);

# build regex from field names without numbers
my $re = join '\s*(.*?)\s*',(map { s/\d// ; $_}@fname),'' ;

# prepare 
my $sql = "INSERT INTO test_table (ID,$fld)
           VALUES (NULL, $ph)";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);          

# input data
while (<DATA>){
  if ( my @f = /$re$/ ){
    $sth->execute(@f);
  }
}

# print results
pp $dbh->selectall_arrayref('SELECT * FROM test_table');

# connect / create test table
sub get_dbh{
  my $database = "test"; my $user = "user"; my $pw = "password";
  my $dsn = "dbi:mysql:$database:localhost:3306"; 
  my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $pw, 
            { RaiseError=>1, AutoCommit=>1 } );
  
  #$dbh->do('drop table test_table');
  $dbh->do("
  CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test_table (
  ID   int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  QB   varchar(45) DEFAULT NULL, RB1  varchar(45) DEFAULT NULL,
  RB2  varchar(45) DEFAULT NULL, WR1  varchar(45) DEFAULT NULL,
  WR2  varchar(45) DEFAULT NULL, WR3  varchar(45) DEFAULT NULL,
  TE   varchar(45) DEFAULT NULL, FLEX varchar(45) DEFAULT NULL,
  DST  varchar(45) DEFAULT NULL, UNIQUE KEY ID_UNIQUE (ID)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;");

  #$dbh->do('delete from test_table');
  return $dbh;
} 

__DATA__
QB Carson Palmer RB Chris Ivory RB Eddie Lacy WR A.J. Green WR John Br
+own WR Davante Adams TE Martellus Bennett FLEX Jeremy Hill DST Panthe
+rs

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