Just like the top four teams in the NWSL were vastly superior to the rest of the pack this season, there are (in this humble writer's opinion) a few obvious choices for individual awards.
That has been the story of this campaign: last year's historic parity was replaced by a landscape in which the best teams just kept winning and the bad teams couldn't keep up. Top individual performers were also clearly superior to their peers in several cases.
With the regular season complete and the playoffs just days away, here are ESPN's picks of the best players in the NWSL for 2024.