Since the awards were first handed out in the 1967 season, only three former FSU football layers have brought home the AP Rookie of the Year Award on either offense or defense in the respective seasons: Peter Boulware for the Baltimore Ravens and Warrick Dunn for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, both in 1997, and Anquan Boldin for the Arizona Cardinals in the 2003 season.
At this rate, you might as well go ahead and put down Los Angeles Chargers safety Derwin James as the fourth person on that list as the man now rocking No. 33 in the City of Angels is showing the league why the 14 teams with picks ahead of the Chargers made a mistake during last April’s NFL Draft in skipping over James (Cleveland and Buffalo each had two).