NFL Offensive & Defensive Player of the Year Bets: Odds, Picks & Predictions (2024)
The 2024 NFL regular season is several weeks away. However, it's time to get those preseason NFL bets in. While betting on team win totals, division winners, and award winners, betting on individual awards like offensive & defensive player of the year futures can be extremely profitable.
Our panel of BettingPros analysts weighed in on where they’re placing their wagers for this season’s NFL Offensive & Defensive Players of the Year. Here’s what they said.
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BettingPros Analysts’ Offensive Player of the Year Picks
Ja’Marr Chase (+1200)
In three of the last five seasons, the winner of AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year has been a WR that led the NFL in receiving yards. During Ja’Marr Chase’s last seven games played with Joe Burrow in 2023 (when Burrow was mostly healthy), Chase was on pace for 143 catches, 1,824 yards and 12 TDs. (108 receiving yards per game). That would rank 1st among all WRs over the last two seasons. Given how involved Chase is in the Bengals offense (that now has major question marks at running back), he has the chance to flirt with bonkers receiving and TD numbers. Burrow has the 6th-shortest odds to lead the NFL in passing yards, which lends itself to Chase having an absolute monster 2024 campaign.
-Andrew Erickson
We have not seen Chase’s best yet, and it could easily happen in 2024. Chase is supremely motivated to secure the bag with his next contract, which should have opposing secondaries shaking in fear. In his rookie season, Chase already displayed the talent to finish top-five in the NFL in receiving yards and receiving touchdowns. With more slot work incoming in 2024 and a fully healthy Burrow, we could see Chase set the league on fire.
-Derek Brown
Jonathan Taylor (+3500)
Non-QBs have won this award in six of the last seven seasons, with three RBs and three WRs winning it over that span. I like the long odds on Taylor, who finished second to Cooper Kupp in the 2021 OPOY balloting after rushing for 1,811 yards and scoring 20 touchdowns. Taylor is a beast when healthy, and he’s going to benefit from playing with ultra-mobile QB Anthony Richardson. If Taylor plays a full season, he’s going to put up freaky numbers and contend for this award.
-Pat Fitzmaurice
CeeDee Lamb (+1000)
CeeDee Lamb was incredible last year, but people forget the start of 2023 was slow. Lamb IS the offense right now, and when that incredible finish to last season starts off 2024 with a bang, this award is Lamb’s to lose.
-Joe Pisapia
BettingPros Analysts’ Defensive Player of the Year Picks
Aidan Hutchinson (+1600)
My highest confidence futures bet is on Aidan Hutchinson to take down the DPOY award. Checks off every single box one could ask for. Sacks drive of this award. And no player is set up for a season-high sack total more than Hutchinson. Hutchinson left sack production on the table last season, finishing second in total pressures (101) but 18th in sack production. He had eight sacks in his last five games played. The sacks are coming with the Lions protecting leads in shootouts after shootouts with their dome-loaded schedule.
-Andrew Erickson
This award has become mostly about sacks in recent years, and Hutchinson’s expected sack total was far higher than his actual total in 2023. That’s not going to hold for long, and Hutch is set up to have a huge 2024 season on a high-profile Lions team. That helps because all of these are media awards.
-Joe Pisapia
Maxx Crosby (+1000)
Sack artists T.J. Watt, Nick Bosa and Myles Garrett have taken home this award over the last three years, so let’s ride that trend. Crosby had 12.5 sacks in 2022 and finished sixth in the DPOY voting. Last year, he had 14.5 sacks and finished fourth. Sense a trend? Crosby hasn’t missed a single game in his five-year NFL career and plays with the intensity of a thousand suns. Give me 10-1 odds, and I’ll say a little prayer for all the QBs Crosby will face this year.
-Pat Fitzmaurice
TJ Watt (+750)
Watt finished second in the voting for this award last year and top three in four of his last five seasons, so expecting him to take it home in 2024 shouldn’t be crazy. Last year, he ranked 18th in pass rush win rate, first in sacks (tied), and third in quarterback hits (per PFF). With a refortified defense around him, Watt could take home the hardware in 2024.
-Derek Brown