NFL Comeback Player of the Year Odds & Predictions | Pickswise

With the Baltimore Ravens and Kansas City Chiefs set for an AFC Championship Game rematch on Thursday Night Football kickoff on September 5, the 2024 NFL regular season is right around the corner. That’s right, less than one month from now we will have meaningful NFL Football taking place on the gridiron. 

With the 2024 season rapidly approaching, our team at Pickswise is diving headlong into its coverage for upcoming campaign. Our analysis and projections for the NFL futures market continue with a look at the Comeback Player of the Year Award. A season ago, this award went to Cleveland Browns quarterback Joe Flacco, who came out of nowhere to snatch the award from preseason favorite Damar Hamlin. Will another veteran quarterback take down this award once again? The betting market certainly thinks so. 

Who will be the NFL Comeback Player of the Year in 2024? Let’s take a look at the odds my best bet to make. 

2024 NFL Comeback Player of the Year odds

Odds reflect best numbers available at FanDuel and/or BetMGM Sportsbook at time of publishing.

Here are the odds:

Aaron Rodgers +200
Joe Burrow +250
Kirk Cousins +500
Anthony Richardson +750
Nick Chubb +1300
Daniel Jones +1600
Kyler Murray +4500
Deshaun Watson +4500
Tank Dells +4500
Sam Darnold +6000

NFL Comeback Player of the Year best bet: Nick Chubb (+1300 at FanDuel Sportsbook)

At first glance, I wanted to back Kirk Cousins with a wager in this market. After all, Cousins has been much quieter throughout his rehab process from a torn achilles compared to Aaron Rodgers, and a NFC South division championship with the Atlanta Falcons could go a long way to sculpting a positive narrative that the NFL media and voters could get behind. However, we just don’t know too much about how Cousins is going to look at his advanced age coming off this injury, so much like Rodgers, I can’t get behind a wager on the unknown. Instead, I’m going to look toward the Cleveland Browns and target their franchise running back to have a inspiring bounce-back season en route to claiming this award. 

Nick Chubb has had to overcome a lot in his career, particularly when it comes to injuries. The former Georgia product tore his PCL, MCL and LCL in his left knee in college and managed to overcome that on his way to becoming one of the best running backs in the NFL. In his 6th season with the Browns, Chubb was sadly forced to miss most of the campaign with a major knee injury suffered in Week 2 last fall. Chubb has now had multiple surgeries to repair his MCL and ACL in his career, which makes a potential return to high level football feel extremely improbable. However, reports from training camp have been very encouraging for the veteran running back, leading me to believe that he might take the field in a meaningful game before the end of September.

It’ll be an inspiring story if Chubb is able to perform at even a competent level after another serious injury, which presents us with a compelling case for taking this number at 13-1 before it could potentially be cut in half by the midway point of the season. Let’s take a shot on Chubb to have a successful comeback season and hope that the voters are also taken with his story.