{"id":28,"date":"2008-12-06T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qballers.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2010-03-27T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T03:20:08","slug":"top-5-2009-fantasy-rookie-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/06\/top-5-2009-fantasy-rookie-prospects\/","title":{"rendered":"Top-5 2009 Fantasy Rookie Prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">The 2009 NFL rookie draft class\u00c2\u00a0could\u00c2\u00a0be as unusually stocked with fantasy prospects as the 2008 class was, depending on a few juniors and a pair of sophomores that have been out of high school long enough to be eligible. \u00c2\u00a0<!--more--><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">It&#8217;s safe to assume juniors Chris Wells and CJ Spiller will come out early, but if sophomores Knowshon Moreno and LeSean McCoy enter the draft, we could be looking at another very good year for fantasy rookies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">A lot always depends on which NFL team a player gets drafted by, but the rookies featured in this post are, talent-wise, standing out from the pack and clearly project to be among the top of their fantasy football class. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Top-5 2009 Fantasy Rookie Prospects:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">#1 Chris Wells*,\u00c2\u00a0RB 6-1, 237, <a title=\"Highlight Video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N-0mlHNP5u8\">Highlight Video<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N-0mlHNP5u8\"><\/a>#2 Knowshon Moreno**, RB, 5-11, 207,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1wRfHpzdmg8\">Highlight Video<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">#3 LeSean McCoy**, RB, 5-11, 220, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1V1InPPhTxg\">Highlight Video<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">#4 Javon Ringer, RB, 5-9, 200, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sGz97w4Ya9g\">Highlight Video<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">#5 C.J. Spiller*<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">, RB, 5-11, 195, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pIE1J8GSSVQ\">Highlight Video<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">* juniors<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">** sophmores<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2009 NFL rookie draft class\u00c2\u00a0could\u00c2\u00a0be as unusually stocked with fantasy prospects as the 2008 class was, depending on a few juniors and a pair of sophomores that have been out of high school long enough to be eligible. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy-football-rookies","tag-2009-rookies"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}