Fantasy football awards: CeeDee Lamb, Tyreek Hill battled for top wide receiver
Congratulations, Christian McCaffrey! You are the Madman’s 2023 Fantasy MVP. May you be showered with confetti by friends and family, imagine holding a wonderful trophy, then take yourself to Disneyland. You’ve earned it.
But there was a much more interesting battle than the race for MVP, and that is for top fantasy wide receiver.
Tyreek Hill seemed to have dashed away, dashed away, dashed away all season toward this award. But then he got banged up, right as CeeDee Lamb was going boom!
After a solid 18.6 PPR outing in Week 15, the first round of the fantasy playoffs, The next week, Lamb registered his sixth 25-point outing of the season, notching 25.2. Then in championship week, he went nuclear, with 40.2 — his fourth 30-plus game of the season. He, quite literally, was a league-winner.
But was it enough to rally past The Cheetah? After all, Hill recorded nine games of 25 or more and five of 30-plus. He averaged — averaged! — 26.1 through Week 13.
Hill was in the running for NFL MVP — not fantasy, not just WR, but league-wide real-world MVP. Then he tweaked his ankle in Week 14, and since he has missed one game and averaged 14.2 — with his total points (42.6) placing him 32nd among WRs since Week 14.
