Many a football fan find in themselves a cockeyed optimist at this time of year, filled with unbridled enthusiasm about the potential of their team, and perhaps especially, about the guys who are just on or outside of the roster bubble—clearly the next diamonds in the rough.
There always seems to be that one player, perhaps two, every offseason, where you just know that if they let him go, they are going to miss out on a future Pro Bowler. That feeling is almost always wrong because frankly, those players are few and far between, but it’s certainly fun to mine for gold, knowing that occasionally you do strike the valuable ore.