These Rankings are clean

In about a week, the regular season begins, and so does the process of me being wrong in 2007.

I will be wrong many times, it is unavoidable. But after doing some final tweaks to the rankings today, I feel good about them. There were a few guys who were bothering me as we go down the wire here in the preseason. Ronnie Brown, for one. I know Cam Cameron is talking up Jesse Chatman purely as motivated for Brown, but that certainly doesn’t bode well. I moved Brown a tad, although he comes out above MJD because of the alphabet. But if you look, you’ll see Brown has the downside to finish lower and MJD the upside to finish higher. It’s a tough call because Brown will be the workhorse, and MJD really has to take full advantage of every touch he gets, or else he could come up small. On the other hand, Brown has been shaky and MJD great.

Antother one that is really bothering me is Julius Jones and Marion Barber. I have had Jones higher all summer, but they have crept toward one another and are now neck-and-neck. I love Barber, but I can’t get past the [...]

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