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At the conclusion of every fantasy football season, it’s a good exercise to look back at what circumstances led to your ultimate fate — whether you walked away with a first-place trophy or reigned supreme in your league’s Toilet Bowl.
We’ve already commiserated in our worst picks of Rounds 1-10 in our 2024 fantasy drafts; now it’s time to celebrate our best. Here’s a look at fantasy football’s best picks, round-by-round, based on their average draft position and eventual PPG to close out the season.
Round 1: Ja’Marr Chase, WR, Cincinnati Bengals
ADP: 6.7, WR3
PPG finish: WR1
It should be no surprise that the overall WR1 (and our recently crowned 2024 Fantasy Football MVP) was the best pick of Round 1. It certainly wasn’t Christian McCaffrey!
Chase hit new career highs in fantasy points, receptions, receiving yards, touchdowns, catch percentage … the list goes on and on. His 2024 campaign was the fourth-highest-scoring fantasy season over the past 10 years. So, yeah, pretty self-explanatory.
Round 2: Saquon Barkley, RB, Philadelphia Eagles
ADP: 13.3, RB5
PPG finish: RB1
Fantasy football managers were either all-in or totally out on Saquon Barkley’s chances at a revitalized career with the Philadelphia Eagles. Those who bought in were handsomely awarded with his best campaign yet. Barkley topped 2,000 scrimmage yards for the second time in his career and his third consecutive season with 10+ scrimmage TDs. Barkley finished the year with seven weekly finishes as a top-five RB, including three weeks as the No. 1-scoring RB — along with back-to-back top-six finishes in the fantasy playoffs — the definition of a league-winner.
The most surprising fact of all? This isn’t even the best fantasy season of Barkley’s career; he actually scored more fantasy points in half-PPR scoring formats as a rookie with 340.3 points compared to 338.8 in the 2024 season, thanks to his 91 receptions and 721 receiving yards … even if it wasn’t quite as magnificent as what he accomplished…
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Author : Yahoo Sports
Publish date : 2025-01-03 18:47:00
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