{"id":607,"date":"2010-05-19T22:42:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T02:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qballers.com\/blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2010-05-25T21:46:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T01:46:10","slug":"top-rookie-news-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/19\/top-rookie-news-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Rookie News: Kevin Smith &#8216;supports&#8217; Best, Bryant breaking rules already, Hardesty starts well, Tate out w hammy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top 2010 fantasy football rookie news of interest for third week of May. Summary: Kevin Smith &#8216;supporting&#8217; Best; Bryant may have violated deal with Under Armor; Every rookie looks great this time of year including Hardesty; Arrelious Benn will start this year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\n<ul>\n<li>Lions RB Kevin Smith supportive of rookie Jahvid Best\u00c2\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20100519\/SPORTS01\/5190333\/1322\/Smith-supportive-of-rookie-Best\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Free Press<\/a>]. Also,\u00c2\u00a0Jahvid Best&#8217;s &#8216;Madden NFL 11&#8217; ratings\u00c2\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/espn\/thelife\/videogames\/blog\/_\/name\/thegamer\/id\/5201903\/jahvid-best-madden-nfl-11-ratings\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN (blog)<\/a>]. Hint, it averages out to 95.<\/li>\n<li>If the shoe fits: is Dez Bryant changing companies?\u00c2\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/cowboysblog.dallasnews.com\/archives\/2010\/05\/if-the-shoe-fits-is-dez-bryant.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Morning News (blog)<\/a>].\u00c2\u00a0Breaking the rules again already can&#8217;t be a good sign.<\/li>\n<li>Hardesty off to good start\u00c2\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/news?slug=nfp-hardesty_off_to_good_start_in_cleveland_html-2010516\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo! Sports<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Ben Tate miss practice due to injuries\u00c2\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/sports\/fb\/texansfront\/7009768.html\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Chronicle<\/a>]. Also related,\u00c2\u00a0Texans RB Slaton looks to rebound from off year\u00c2\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jCuBo3_GyD4d58SDrztDMjcygblAD9FPFPS00 \" target=\"_blank\">The Associated Press<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Report: Seahawks made phone call about TO\u00c2\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/nbcsports.msnbc.com\/id\/37242955\/ns\/sports-player_news\/\" target=\"_blank\">msnbc.com<\/a>]. They say it was before Golden Tate.<\/li>\n<li>For Bucs&#8217; Clayton, the future is now\u00c2\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/article\/20100518\/ARTICLE\/5181038\/2055\/NEWS \" target=\"_blank\">Sarasota Herald-Tribune<\/a>]. Arrelious Benn will start.<\/li>\n<li>Realistic expectations for Sam Bradford [<a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/nfcwest\/post\/_\/id\/18425\/realistic-expectations-for-sam-bradford\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN (blog)<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Rookie Impact Report: Joe McKnight [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rototimes.com\/article\/2010\/5\/Rookie-Impact-Report-Joe-McKnight\" target=\"_blank\">RotoTimes.com<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Chiefs hoping to get strong running game\u00c2\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gC8KmKk1WdVCcNkiOxTcLWdF7EsgD9FOO1785 \" target=\"_blank\">The Associated Press<\/a>]. Dexter McCluster<\/li>\n<li>Tebow coming to Denver out of left field\u00c2\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/afcwest\/post\/_\/id\/13359\/tebow-coming-to-denver-out-of-left-field\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN (blog)<\/a>]. Opinions about Tebow being left-handed. Also,\u00c2\u00a0Tim Tebow&#8217;s Training Regimen\u00c2\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/predominantlyorange.com\/2010\/05\/19\/tim-tebows-training-regimen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Predominantly Orange (blog)<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Matt Moore: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna be an exciting year I think offensively for the Panthers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/sportsradiointerviews.com\/2010\/05\/18\/matt-moore-\u00e2\u20ac\u0153it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s-gonna-be-an-exciting-year-i-think-offensively-for-the-panthers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Radio Interviews<\/a>]. On competition with Jimmy Clausen<\/li>\n<li>Rams draft pick Mardy Gilyard robbed at gunpoint [<a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/gameon\/post\/2010\/05\/rams-draft-pick-gilyard-robbed-at-gunpoint\/1\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top 2010 fantasy football rookie news of interest for third week of May. Summary: Kevin Smith &#8216;supporting&#8217; Best; Bryant may have violated deal with Under Armor; Every rookie looks great this time of year including Hardesty; Arrelious Benn will start this year.<\/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":[14,50,47,105,49,77,43,107,104,78,52,416,88,103,106],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-fantasy-football-rookies","tag-2010-rookies","tag-arrelious-benn","tag-ben-tate","tag-dexter-mccluster","tag-dez-bryant","tag-golden-tate","tag-jahvid-best","tag-jimmy-clausen","tag-joe-mcknight","tag-mardy-gilyard","tag-montario-hardesty","tag-fantasy-football-rookies","tag-ryan-mathews","tag-sam-bradford","tag-tim-tebow"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","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=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}