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ShareThisFifth Down Post: Revis and Cromartie
Over at the New York Times blog, The Fifth Down, I wrote a short article about the 2010 Jets. Barring injury, the '10 Jets corners will be a 25-year-old Darrelle Revis and a 26-year-old Antonio Cromartie, both of whom have been named first-team All-Pros by the Associated Press before. As it turns out, only three other times since the merger has a team fielded two players at the same position, both 26 years of age or younger, who had previously been selected as 1APs by the Associated Press.
All three pairs produced one Hall of Famer
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Noticed Cromartie does not have an AV listed for 2009. How so? Ditto Joe Staley, LT, SFO -- whom I was trying to look up for cumulative AV.
Latopia,
2009 AVs aren't up just yet, but should be live soon.
One mistake in the piece...
Chase Stuart writes:
"That set the stage for 1983, when QB Lynn Dickey set the still-standing single-season Packers passing record, 4,458 yards. Lofton was the man on the receiving end of 1,300 of those yards; he continued to excel for another decade, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2003. Chandler’s career path took a much different turn: in ‘83 he had a solid but unspectacular season for the Packers, and he was out of the league by 1986."
I'm sure you meant Jefferson's career path, not Chandler's...
I am not suprised by Darnelle Revis because he has shut down every reciever that has played against him. Nobody will and should never throw at him. And Cromartie deserves it even though his play is not as good as it was when he was a rookie. These two have a chance to be stars in the near future!
Um, I'm going to go out on a limb and say Revis is the Canton-bound member of this pairing. Cromartie's a gambler who had one freakish season in which a lot of balls stuck. He's clearly a starting-calibre corner, but he makes too many mistakes and was only voted all-pro thanks to fetishisation of interceptions by media observers who have almost no other way to evaluate CB play. Revis, on the other hand, is a truly exceptional cover corner: among current players only Asomugha can compare.