And just like that, the 2023-24 NFL regular season is done. I'm going to wrap up this series with just a few observations that cover both the fantasy season (with most finals in Week 17) and overall season. As I've written throughout, snap counts are from Pro-Football-Reference.com; targets, carries, and PPR fantasy points data are from ESPN; and routes run and average depth of target (aDOT) are from PFF as listed on FantasyLife.com.
- CeeDee Lamb won a lot of fantasy championships with his monstrous 40.2 points from 13 catches for 227 yards and touchdown, and the crazy thing is that it could've been an even bigger night if he hadn't lost a fumble reaching for the pylon. As if that's not enough, he had another 13 catch performance in the regular season finale for 35.5 points. Overall on the season, he finished with the most total PPR points among wide receivers and an average of 23.72 while playing 83.70% of the Cowboys' snaps, running a route on 91.42% of the dropbacks, and seeing 29.92% of the targets.
Those are absolutely alpha receiver numbers, and they're even better when you isolate them from Week 6 on, which is when Lamb had a conversation with Mike McCarthy about how he's being used following their embarrassing loss to the 49ers. He proceeded to go on an insane 12 game stretch averaging 27.69 points with 87.84%, 92.49%, and 32.88% rates. It helped that McCarthy reverted the offense back to their pass-heavy ways instead of forcing a run-heavy game plan, and practically running the offense through Lamb resulted in them finishing the season 9-3. 108 catches for 1,391 yards and 11 TDs with 11 carries for another 92 yards and 2 scores would make for an awesome season let alone 12 game stretch, so I can't wait to see what he does for an encore next season.
