Last year it is Stevie Johnson (and thank God they didn't go out to get someone like TO to block his path again).
Roscoe was on course to his best professional season until he got hurt, so he's an obvious candidate. Donald Jones started a couple of games last year, but I just don't see anything near what I saw Stevie the first couple times.
Marcus Easley had one good pre-season game. But the guy has shown he can walk a steep learning curve in college and i'd count him out to do the same, particularly since he did spend a year in NFL, even though on IR. As i said before, he has #1 talent and if he pans out, he'll have a bigger impact than Stevie's last year.
My ultimate candidate is, however, Spiller. Unlike last year's preseason where the guy made headlines using his old trick from his college career. This preseason, he seems to really put his head down learning the craft of running inside the tackles. I don't know him, and I don't know anybody who knows him. I only have the preseason games to watch. But I sense he's getting close to the point of breaking out. We know he's healthy, and the talent of taking it to the house from anywhere. If he keeps at his pace of progress of running inside, the defense will need to game-plan for him.
Roscoe was on course to his best professional season until he got hurt, so he's an obvious candidate. Donald Jones started a couple of games last year, but I just don't see anything near what I saw Stevie the first couple times.
Marcus Easley had one good pre-season game. But the guy has shown he can walk a steep learning curve in college and i'd count him out to do the same, particularly since he did spend a year in NFL, even though on IR. As i said before, he has #1 talent and if he pans out, he'll have a bigger impact than Stevie's last year.
My ultimate candidate is, however, Spiller. Unlike last year's preseason where the guy made headlines using his old trick from his college career. This preseason, he seems to really put his head down learning the craft of running inside the tackles. I don't know him, and I don't know anybody who knows him. I only have the preseason games to watch. But I sense he's getting close to the point of breaking out. We know he's healthy, and the talent of taking it to the house from anywhere. If he keeps at his pace of progress of running inside, the defense will need to game-plan for him.
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