With the 2024 fantasy football season officially in the rearview mirror, you’ve hopefully walked away with some hardware to commemorate the season. Now, it’s time to hand out hardware to the players who got us there.

Chase was of course the highest-scoring non-QB in full-PPR leagues this past season, and the degree to which he dominated his position was outrageous. He finished 68.3 points ahead of the game’s overall WR2, Justin Jefferson, and an absurd 137.3 points clear of the WR10, Drake London. Chase was also fantasy’s most consistent elite player in 2024, particularly when we needed him most. Over the final seven weeks of the fantasy season, his worst single-game output was 9-94-0. Simply an unfair player. — Andy Behrens

Honorable mention: Saquon Barkley

Hall was healthy enough to play in 15 games but the explosive plays were largely missing and he’s broken just seven tackles all year. Drafted as the consensus RB2 in Yahoo leagues all summer, Hall checks in as the RB18 — and he’s only that high because he’s played close to a full schedule. The Jets preseason over/under stood at 9.5 wins, but shipwrecked by aging quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the team currently sits at 4-12. This was not an offense for right answers. — Scott Pianowski

Dishonorable Mentions: Tyreek Hill, Marvin Harrison Jr., Deebo Samuel Sr., Anthony Richardson

We have no shortage of deserving candidates for this award, so disagreement is understandable. If you won a championship with Brian Thomas Jr. on the roster, we will accept dissent. Let’s just please note that Bowers was one of the few right answers at tight end in 2024 and he just delivered the greatest debut season in the history of his position. Bowers broke Mike Ditka’s 63-year-old record for receiving yards by a rookie tight end while also snatching Puka Nacua’s record for receptions by any rookie, regardless of position. Just imagine what this guy is gonna do when his quarterback is someone other than Gardner Minshew or Aiden O’Connell. — Behrens

Honorable mentions: Jayden Daniels, Bucky Irving, Brian Thomas Jr., Malik Nabers

Remember all that summer hype on Anthony Richardson? It should have been focused on Daniels instead, another dynamic athletic quarterback who offered a more developed passing profile. Daniels had a brief lull midseason while he battled a rib injury, but he was superb down the stretch, charting as the QB1, QB2, QB7, QB1 and QB4 over the final five weeks. These are the type of ADP-smashing picks (or waiver grabs) that win leagues for you. — Pianowski

Honorable Mentions: Sam Darnold, Chase Brown, Bucky Irving, Brian Thomas Jr., Jonnu Smith

What an absolutely entertaining, surprising and delightful season. Whatever you might have expected from Mayfield in 2024, he over-delivered. Entering the final week of the regular season, he’s already clinched career highs in every stat that matters (and many that don’t). Mayfield is up to 42 total touchdowns and he’s not yet finished. He’s completing an obnoxious 71.7% of his throws and averaging 8.0 Y/A. He passed for 359 yards and five scores in Week 17, cementing his legend status within the fantasy community. His unrivaled flair and charm are a satisfying bonus. Perfect season, no notes. — Behrens

Honorable mentions: Josh Jacobs, Joe Mixon, Courtland Sutton

Anybody who just won a title with Irving will of course now claim to have drafted and stashed him, never doubting his upside. Bucky was their sleeper from the very beginning.

“Waivers? Pffft. Not in my league.” History is written by the victors and whatnot.

But just for the record, Irving was unrostered in 79% of Yahoo leagues heading into the season’s second week, so not everyone who enjoyed his breakout was an unwavering draft-day believer.

Whenever and however you got him, Irving was a true difference-maker in your season. He delivered 190 scrimmage yards in Championship Week and averaged 5.5 YPC on the year. He was also a tier-of-his-own highlight machine, one of the game’s flashiest runners. He was a party. — Behrens

Honorable mentions: Baker Mayfield, Jonnu Smith, Jordan Mason-Isaac Guerendo combo platter

Never a doubt. Kyle had this one locked up in September.

Let’s please never forget that Christian McCaffrey was looking good to play in opening week according to Kyle. A few days later, CMC was on injured reserve. And a few weeks after that, McCaffrey was on a flight to Germany, seeking exotic calf treatments.

A little less dishonesty would have gone a long way, particularly for anyone who landed the No. 1 pick in their draft. Even by the usual standards of NFL head coaches, Shanahan was an exceptional source of misinformation. — Behrens

Honorable mention: Nope, no one is close

The Lions sit at 553 points through 16 games — that’s the seventh-most all-time — and the production was generally steered to the primary players fantasy managers counted on (Jared Goff, Jahmyr Gibbs, David Montgomery, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jameson Williams). Second-year tight end Sam LaPorta was a mild disappointment, but OC Ben Johnson usually did an excellent job of scheming up splash plays for his key playmakers. This offense also kicked into a second gear late in the season, when cluster injuries to the Detroit defense forced them into weekly pinball games. — Pianowski

Honorable Mentions: Cincinnati Bengals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

For as wonderful as Saquon Barkley was this year, imagine if the Eagles let him lug the mail from the one-yard line. Jalen Hurts pushed in from the one-yard line for an astounding 11 touchdowns — five more than any other player. Barkley didn’t have a single score from the one, and his average touchdown distance was 29.4 yards. Bettis, of course, specialized in this sort of plunge — 43 of his 94 career touchdowns came from the one-yard line. Some buses are made for short trips. — Pianowski

Honorable Mentions: Josh Allen, Josh Jacobs, Roschon Johnson, Jahmyr Gibbs (six each)

We may never again see an end-of-season eruption like the Jeffers surge of ’99, when the fourth-year receiver produced nearly half of his career fantasy output in a five-game heater. That season, Jeffers closed with 717 receiving yards and eight scores in his final five games, reaching triple-digit yardage each week. It was both wild and utterly unexpected.

McMillan is the closest comp for Jeffers in the 2024 season, as he’s reached the end zone six times over the final four weeks of the fantasy season, catching 19 passes on 25 targets. McMillan also earned the distinction of being the player found on the greatest percentage of league-winning Yahoo teams. Anyone who scooped him off the wire a month ago will be forever grateful. — Behrens

Honorable mentions: Jerry Jeudy, Xavier Worthy

OK, we realize there might be some level of disagreement about where, exactly, the RB dead zone begins and ends, but hopefully, everyone will acknowledge that Conner was squarely inside the range. His cross-platform ADP was 58.3. At the age of 29, Conner just delivered his second-straight 1,000-yard rushing season and a career-best 1,508 scrimmage yards. A knee injury forced an early exit in Championship Week, which was unfortunate, but Conner did more than enough to carry any fantasy team to Week 17. In his previous two games, he delivered 304 scrimmage yards, three TDs and nine receptions.

Plenty of managers who shopped in the dead zone ended up with Zamir White or Javonte Williams, so Conner was an incredible find. — Behrens

Honorable mentions: Aaron Jones Sr., David Montgomery

This award is quite obviously intended to recognize a player who enters the season with hype that has no relationship to his end-of-year finish. Pitts has been almost unchallenged in this category since he entered the league. He concluded his fourth fantasy season with a TE14 overall finish, rostered in only 77% of Yahoo leagues. Per his usual, he was typically drafted among the top 75 picks as a consensus top-8 tight end.

Loyalty to Pitts among a certain segment of fantasy managers is both intense and absolute, so he’s the early frontrunner to again win his own award in 2025. — Behrens

Honorable mentions: Travis Etienne Jr., C.J. Stroud

Ask your parents about the legend of Billy Volek, kids. For three magical weeks in December of 2004, the former Titans quarterback was unstoppable. He averaged 395.7 passing yards and threw 11 TD passes — eight of which went to fellow legend Drew Bennett — during a ridiculous three-game stretch that carried his fantasy managers through the semifinals. Unfortunately, it all came crashing down in Championship Week, when he passed for only 111 scoreless yards.

In 2024, no other random QB reached the highest highs and lowest lows quite like Winston. We’ll always cherish the memory of his chaotic duel with Denver, when he passed for 497 yards, four scores and three interceptions, including two pick-sixes. Two weeks later, he lost the starting gig for Cleveland after tossing another three interceptions against Kansas City, without any of the fantasy goodies. — Behrens

Honorable mention: Drew Lock

We’ll never forget Johnson’s bizarre 2022 season, where he somehow absorbed 147 targets (and 86 catches) but never scored a touchdown. McBride was living through touchdown-allergy hell for most of 2024 before finally spiking in Week 17. With one meaningless game to go, the third-year star sits at 104 catches, 1,081 yards, one piddly score. This is probably more of a negative comment on Kyler Murray and the Arizona coaching staff than it is on McBride; we’ll be fine to draft McBride proactively next year, expecting adjustments to be made.

As for our buddy Johnson, he deserves his own mention for what he did after joining the Ravens: four games, 39 snaps, 1 catch, 6 yards. We will study that one catch on coaching tape all spring. He’s at a crossroads entering his age-29 season. — Pianowski

In his best years, Orange Julius was an elite touchdown specialist. He reached the end zone a dozen times in 2014 on just 43 receptions and 62 targets. Over two magical seasons, Thomas managed to score on 22.2% of his receptions, which is just silly.

In 2024, Westbrook-Ikhine blew that rate out of the water. No player in the league delivered a TD-to-touch ratio quite like NWI, who enters Week 18 having crossed the goal line nine times on his 28 receptions. He’s currently one of only four players in the history of the league to have scored nine or more touchdowns on 30 or fewer touches. We haven’t seen a season like this since Paul Warfield in 1973, which is a crazy thing to type. — Behrens

Honorable mentions: Quentin Johnston, Rashod Bateman, Tucker Kraft