{"id":355,"date":"2010-04-16T11:41:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T15:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qballers.com\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2010-04-16T11:46:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T15:46:03","slug":"top-5-fantasy-football-rookies-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/top-5-fantasy-football-rookies-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Fantasy Football Rookies in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top 5 Fantasy Football Rookies in 2010 based on projected draft result.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>#1 Ryan Mathews &#8211; RB, Chargers &#8211; There is plenty of speculation that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/apr\/11\/rivers-excited-about-rb-prospects\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chargers will take Matthews <\/a>with the 28th overall pick (if Houston doesn&#8217;t take him with #20). We&#8217;ve long held the belief that any RB selected by the Chargers would be an instant fantasy football star.<\/p>\n<p>#2 Dez Bryant &#8211; WR, Steelers &#8211; Rarely do we advocate a rookie WR among the top 5 fantasy football prospects, but this guy seems to have it all, including a diva complex and other <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2010\/writers\/don_banks\/04\/09\/dez.bryant.randy.moss\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Randy Moss-like qualities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#3 Jahvid Best &#8211; RB, Lions &#8211; Should Best last until the 34th pick, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/lions\/index.ssf\/2010\/04\/californias_jahvid_best_could.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lions are said to be ready to pounce<\/a>. If the Lions address their offensive line issues there is a good chance Best could be a surprise keeper league darling teamed with Stafford and Calvin Johnson for the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>#4 CJ Spiller &#8211; RB, Giants &#8211; If Spiller falls any where near the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/football\/giants\/2010\/04\/15\/2010-04-15_new_york_giants_running_back_ahmad_bradshaw_big_blue_backfield_is_fine.html\" target=\"_blank\">Giants&#8217; 15th overall pick<\/a>, they are said to be prepared to trade up to get him. If so, talk about a committee approach with Jacobs, Bradshaw, Brown, Ware and Gartrell Johnson already there.<\/p>\n<p>#5 Jonathan Dwyer &#8211; RB, Browns &#8211; It would be hard to get excited about any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springfieldnewssun.com\/springfield-oh-sports\/cleveland-browns\/browns-have-sights-set-on-georgia-tech-rb-dwyer-647583.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brown&#8217;s rookie RB<\/a>, but maybe Harrison&#8217;s heroics last season broke the jinx. Over the last ten years the Browns have drafted seven running backs and none have panned out: Travis Prentice (#63 in 2000), James Jackson (#65 in 2001), William Green (#16 in 2002), Lee Suggs (#115 in 2003), Adimchinobe Echemandu (#208 in 2004), Jerome Harrison (#145 in 2006) and James Davis (#195 in 2009).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top 5 Fantasy Football Rookies in 2010 based on projected draft result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[14,46,49,43,89,88],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-fantasy-football-rookies","tag-2010-rookies","tag-cj-spiller","tag-dez-bryant","tag-jahvid-best","tag-jonathan-dwyer","tag-ryan-mathews"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","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=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}