Yahoo Sports’ Fantasy Football Live crew looks back at the season and name the players who had the largest impact for fantasy managers this season.
Let’s get into some MVP performers.
Like when I think MVP, I think Andy Perris, I think Matt Harmon, I think Tara Roberts, like, we, we think MVP.
Let’s talk about the best of the best.
It’s been a surprising year.
We’ve had all sorts of performances.
We didn’t expect.
Let’s crown some fantasy MVPs for 2024.
Matt Harmon, as our king, you can go first.
Oh my God, so much pressure with that kind of title, but I’m gonna go with, uh, the king, I think of fantasy this year at the running back position, which is Saquan Barkley.
Crazy to think that you could have taken Saquan Barkley in the very back half of the first round, maybe.
He went in the 2nd round in a variety of leagues because people were afraid of.
I don’t know.
I mean, afraid of like the tush push.
And they’ve been, they’ve been pushing Tush, uh, up there in Philadelphia this year.
Jalen Hurts has gotten pushed into the end zone plenty of times and Saquan Barkley has still been an extremely dynamic performer in real life, in fantasy football.
Uh, he has been a do it all talent.
Sometimes it really is just this, this simple.
Running back.
Great talent.
Situation, great ecosystem.
That equals fantasy football, running back one, top scorer at the position again, was not a consensus, top 4 back in fantasy this year.
So you got him at a great value.
He’s been everything you could have wanted and more.
Uh, and yeah, and things are still working out for the Philadelphia Eagles.
So, uh, Saquan Barkley is my fantasy MVP this year.
You just worked push and push into your analysis, which means you are the true fantasy MVP.
I’m jealous.
I didn’t think of it.
I, I think it should be sent out as Yahoo notifications to everybody every time that score happens from now on.
Roberts, give us your MVP.
No pressure.
Push and push is hard to top, but, but, but we got this.
Let’s go for it.
It’s hard to top Push and Tush and Sean Berkeley, but, um, my fantasy MVP is uh Josh Jacobs for the, for the best value MVP here because the lack of faith that everyone had around Josh Jacobs heading into the season.
I just want to give a special shout out to him as this MVP because it’s, it’s, it’s great to be an MVP when you were a top pick, but to do so when nearly everyone immediately wrote you off here, when the Packers drafted Marshawn Lloyd, there were 10,000 justifications as to why Josh.
Jacobs would be irrelevant this year.
They said he was washed at 26, the audacity of that.
They poke holes in his contract.
They told you to fade him, and Josh Jacobs might not have had the insane ceiling of Saquan Barkley, but he has just 1 game below 10 fantasy points, and that was with Malik Willis at quarterback.
And since the Packers by week, he has just 1 finish outside of the top 6.
That is insane.
And that is the game that they pulled him because they were just beating the Saints so badly here.
He deserves a ton of respect for the incredible year that he has had here.
I, I love both those calls and I’ll continue the running back love.
I mean, this has been the resurgent year of the running back.
We’ve all talked about that.
But when I think of MVP, part of what I think about, especially in the fantasy world, is what we expected coming in.
And there were so many people talking about Derrick Henry hitting the wall, talking about Derrick Henry, not going to be that guy, you know.
Yeah, he’d still be good for the Ravens, but he wouldn’t be great for the Ravens.
I think all of that has been put to rest.
Hell, the only way I’ve won anything that I’ve won on this show in our snake drafts is when I’ve been lucky enough to draft Derrick Henry.
For that reason enough, he’s the MVP for me.
But really when you look at the way he’s carried the ball, when you look at the way that they built the offense around him, and when you look at the fact that even with the two-time, maybe soon to be 3-time NFL MVP, it has been Derrick Henry so often that has had to really be the workhorse for this Ravens team and has done it in a way that’s been so, so good.
My MVP simply because of the expectations and the wall that was supposedly hit coming in, Derrick Henry.
Andy Barns, give us your MVP.
Yeah, I’m going to go with Jamar Chase simply because of his, his utter domination of his position.
Entering week 17, Chase had a nearly 60 point fantasy lead over the second highest scoring wide receiver, Justin Jefferson.
He is 130 points clear of the wide receiver 10 on the season.
He’s just offered the greatest positional advantage in the game.
There are only like 20 wide receivers who have even reached 50% of Chase’s fantasy total this year.
Sawan clearly giving us a historic season, but he hasn’t totally shaken Derrick Henry.
There have been a bunch of right answers at running back, but one very clear right answer at wide receiver, it’s not just that he’s winning the receiving Triple Crown, it’s that no one’s really all that close to him in at least two of the categories.
He has a 4 touchdown lead.
He’s over 200 receiving yards clear of number 2, and I guess I The final argument for Chase is that he’s had 8 straight huge fantasy games.
His, his worst fantasy performance dating back to like week 10 is 9 catches for 94 yards.
People were complaining yesterday because he only gave them 9 catches for 102.
That’s just MVP stuff.
