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Breakout Player of the Year

Buccaneers' RT Orlando Franklin

The third-year Pro came into the season with a career line of 30 blocks against 8 sacks allowed, an especially poor ratio for an OT. Earning a starting gig in Week 1, he was the lone bright spot on an OL that could not create holes for the running game or protect the QB. Franklin ended up with a blistering 76 blocks, 3 sacks allowed, or roughly 25 blocks per sack allowed. The rest of the OL combined to record 172 blocks against 57 sacks allowed, or roughly 3 blocks per sack. Franklin might have been the difference between a playoff team and a losing one with a bunch of dead QBs and HBs.

Falcons WR Early Doucet

After Hines Ward retired a few seasons ago, nobody has truly stepped up to replace him. Doucet has been the closest but has yet to top even 850 yards in a season. With QBs Aaron Rodgers and Rex Grossman combining to throw for 12 TDs against 25 INTs and a passer rating below 60, you would assume that the Falcons would have to wait another year to see if anybody in their WR corps will become a star. You'd be wrong though. Doucet was responsible for more than half of the Falcons receiving yards and 2/3 of the receiving TDs en route to an 82 reception, 1250 yard, 8 TD season.

Pioneers K Nate Kaeding

In his 11th season with the Pioneers franchise, you'd think that Kaeding would have had some great seasons here and there. However, he had never hit more than 28 FGs, and his career FG% sat at 78, never eclipsing 82% in a season. Kaeding responded by being one of the unsung heroes for this Pioneers team that saw a six win improvement from a year ago by hitting a B8NFLL record 38 FGs on 42 attempts (90% also tied for lead league), including nailing all five of his kicks from 50+ yards after entering the season as a sub-50% kicker from that range.

Vikings' HB Courtney Lewis

A player that I have gushed about to anyone who would lend an ear, this career journeyman backup should have been a starter much sooner. Taken with the first of five picks that the Bills received from the Bucs in the Tom Brady trade, Lewis has shown to four franchises (Bills, Panthers, Steelers, Dolphins) that his consitent, efficient, and dual threat game meant he could be a star if someone would just give him a chance. All four let him hit free agency. The Vikings picked him up last season as a mid-season replacement, and after re-signing him in the offseason, he was given his first starting gig at the age of 31. He responded by recording 657 more rushing yards (1584) than he had ever produced in a season, five more TDs (11), and was just 21 yards shy of 2000 total yards on the season as the Vikings focal point on offense en route to an NFC North title.

Wildcats' LE Robert Quinn

Not prof's first choice with the 11th pick in the S10 draft, Quinn had a disappointing rookie season with just 3 sacks in 16 starts. It's an understatment to say that his sophomore season went a lot better. Helping out a defense that finished in the teens for the first time since the Arizona Cardinal days, Quinn led the NFL in sacks this season with 14.
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