Opportunity, situation, key for 2009 rookie wideouts

I've been meaning to chime in on this topic, since it's been eating at me a little bit after we finished up the magazine. Looking at last year's mag, our rookie WR rankings for 2008 look pretty bad (Devin Thomas, James Hardy, and Donnie Avery were 1-2-3). However, if you check out the 2008 preseason homepage and look at the final rookie WR rankings on the site, you'll see they were quite different (Eddie Royal, DeSean Jackson, and Josh Morgan ranked 1-2-3). It's really hard to rank the rookie wideouts in May, June, or even July. This year, the logical #1 choice ...

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