What?! What?! Whhaaaaaat?!

in the AFC East?

9. Donte Whitner, Bills. Pending legal issues aside, Whitner is an instinctive playmaker who can play in traffic or in space. He is a rising young player who has a physical style and is strong in run support.

So these so called former scouts haven’t seen much of Whitner then, eh?

The most shocking thing about this list is that Roy Williams is on it.

And how is Gibril WIlson not on this list? This guy actually thinks that Roy Williams is better than Gibril Wilson? I’m surprised that Reggie Nelson and Bernard Pollard aren’t on it either.

Some other little thoughts: I think Ken Hamlin is overrated and it’s good to see him out of the top 10. OJ Otogwe is at least twice as overrated as Hamlin is. For every INT that he comes up with, he gives up three deep passes. He’s a risk taker that I wouldn’t even want on my team. I have a hard time believing that Darren Sharper, while still a viable starter, is one of the 20 best safeties in the league. And it’s good to see SU grad Tanard Jackson on the list. He really deserves it.

I do think Whitner gets underrated by the hardcore Bills fans and overrated by the national media and the funny thing is that it’s for the same reason. Bills fans expect more out of him because he was a top 10 pick, while the rest of the country assumes he is really good because he was a top 10 pick. Whitner is good in run support (average for a SS and great for a FS) and decent in coverage (average for a SS and mediocre for a FS). So I guess that means I think Whitner is an average starting SS. He’d be a fringy top 20 guy if I were making this list. He’s certainly better than Roy Williams and I think he’s just as good as the Quentin Mikell’s of the world, but I don’t think he’s any better than the Yeremiah Bell’s of the league either.