NFL: Russell Wilson should be ROY.

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(01-01-2013 01:27 PM)RnB Wrote:  I think Wilson is simply a better football player than the other rooks this season and deserves ROY. He seems to be the final piece that helped the Seahawks go from slightly above average (in the playoff hunt for a few seasons) to pretty damn good.

RG3 will probably get it due to media hype. He is a good player in the same vein that Vick was good when he first came into the league (I would take Vick over RG3 as rookies, all else being equal), but he was hurt multiple times and their offense is super gimmicky (one year of tape will cause them to have to switch things up). The sports media has a lot of sway in this type of shit, unfortunately, and RG3 has gotten the most coverage of any player this season by far.

Luck may get it as well, due to the media hyping the coach with cancer story and the disparity in win/loss from last season, but I think his receiving corps makes him look better than he is at this point. You also have to factor in the division he plays in and the bigger Indy story (Peyton) that is taking place out west which could overshadow anything Luck did this year.

Really? Luck's receiving corps makes him look better than he really is? He has Reggie Wayne which is better than anyone that RG3 and Russell Wilson has to throw to. But after that there is a huge dropoff.

Donnie Avery? Meh
T.Y. Hilton? He's got some talent but he's a rookie too. So no real advantage there.
Dwayne Allen? Who?
Coby Fleener? Someone he's used to throwing too but Fleener missed 4 games with injuries.
Austin Collie? He's talented but he's always hurt. Played 1 game this season and made 1 catch.

His leading rusher is Vick Ballard, yet another rookie. Pretty impressive what the Colts did on offense with all these rookies and injuries.