Every year the people at Football Reference assign an Approximate Value for each player’s performance. As stated on their website this is their “attempt to put a single number on the seasonal value of a player at any position from any year.” The writers at Football Reference are just as quick as the rest of us to point out there is no perfect way to compare the value of an offensive guard to a free safety, for example, but they have their methodology so we’re going to run with it. Here are the Approximate Value leaders for each of the Carolina Panthers 25 seasons:
Christian McCaffrey, RB - 2018 & 2019.