Justin Jefferson's Best Fantasy Seasons: Every Year Ranked
Justin Jefferson's best fantasy season was 2022, when he scored 367 fantasy points for the Minnesota Vikings across 17 games at 22 points per game, with a best single week of 39. His 2021 and 2024 seasons sit just behind at 330 and 318 points respectively, and 2022 remains the strongest of his five recorded seasons by every measure in the table.
What are Justin Jefferson's best fantasy seasons?
The record covers five seasons for Justin Jefferson, all with the Minnesota Vikings, and the ranking is led decisively by 2022. That year he totaled 367 fantasy points over 17 games, averaged 22 per game, and hit a best week of 39. The step down to the rest of the list is visible in the totals rather than the per-game column: 2021 brought 330 points and 2024 brought 318, yet both of those seasons also averaged 19 per game, matching each other even as the totals differ.
| Rank | Player | Team | Games | Points | Points per game | Best week | | 1 | Justin Jefferson | Minnesota Vikings | 17 | 367 | 22 | 39 | | 2 | Justin Jefferson | Minnesota Vikings | 17 | 330 | 19 | 37 | | 3 | Justin Jefferson | Minnesota Vikings | 17 | 318 | 19 | 36 | | 4 | Justin Jefferson | Minnesota Vikings | 16 | 270 | 17 | 38 | | 5 | Justin Jefferson | Minnesota Vikings | 17 | 202 | 12 | 23 |
How far ahead was 2022 of the other Jefferson seasons?
The gap between the top season and everything below it is what makes 2022 the clear peak. Jefferson's 367 points in 2022 sit above his 330 from 2021 and his 318 from 2024, and the per-game column tells the same story: 22 in 2022 against 19 in each of the two seasons that followed it in the ranking. His best week of 39 in 2022 is also the highest single-game figure anywhere on his record, one point clear of the 38 he posted in 2020 and two clear of his 37 in 2021.
What is striking about the middle of the list is how tightly 2021 and 2024 cluster. Both seasons ran 17 games, both averaged 19 points per game, and their best weeks were 37 and 36. The ordering between them comes down to the totals, where 330 edges 318, but by every other column the two seasons are effectively twins.
Where does the 2020 season fit?
The 2020 entry is the only one on the list from a 16-game schedule, and it still produced 270 fantasy points at 17 per game. That per-game figure is below the 19 he later sustained, but the best week column favors it over 2024: his 38 that year is higher than the 36 he managed in the third-ranked season. In other words, the ranking by total points places 2020 fourth, while his peak single-game performances place it second only to 2022.
What happened to Jefferson's scoring in 2025?
The 2025 season is the clear outlier at the bottom of the record: 202 fantasy points across 17 games, an average of 12 per game, and a best week of 23. Every one of those figures is the lowest of the five seasons. The best week gap is the most dramatic part, because his 23 in 2025 sits well under the 36 or better he reached in each of the four seasons above it, so the drop shows up in his upside games as much as in his week-to-week output.
Read as a whole, the record shows a receiver who spent four seasons operating at a remarkably high level and then a fifth at a visibly lower one. For fantasy purposes, the useful benchmark is the stretch from 2021 through 2024, when he never finished a season below 318 points and never averaged fewer than 19 per game.
Common questions
What was Justin Jefferson's best fantasy season?
- 2022. Justin Jefferson scored 367 fantasy points for the Minnesota Vikings that year across 17 games, averaging 22 per game with a best week of 39.
How many fantasy points did Justin Jefferson score in 2024?
- Justin Jefferson scored 318 fantasy points in 17 games in 2024, averaging 19 points per game with a best week of 36. That ranks third among his recorded seasons.
Which Justin Jefferson season had the biggest single fantasy week?
- His best week of 39 came in 2022, the highest single-game total on his record. His 2020 season produced a 38 and his 2021 season a 37, so his three largest weeks span three different years.
Did Justin Jefferson ever average fewer than 17 fantasy points per game?
- Only once in the five recorded seasons: 2025, when he averaged 12 points per game. In the other four seasons his per-game averages were 22, 19, 19 and 17.