Hester's Competition

Read this last night while surfing the WWL.

I've seen lots of Cleveland Browns games and I'll be the first to tell you that Josh Cribbs is an excellent returner. He always seems to break one loose to midfield. However, the suggestion he is as good or better than Devin Hester is pure hubris on his part.

Cribbs might have the better average YPR, but Hester is entirely correct when pointing out that teams rarely even kick to him. Teams gameplan against Hester just so they don't end up watching the back of his jersey while he takes one back to the house. Cribbs isn't consistently the focus of anyone's special teams play.

Devin is a once in a lifetime talent when it comes to what he does. What's even better is that he is finally starting to grasp the WR position, something he couldn't do at Miami. Heck, Coker failed to develop Devin at any position at Miami.

On that note, you might notice a returners rankings on the side of that article. Clayton has Ted Ginn 5th in the NFL. It's an interesting opinion, to say the least. I'm not sold on Ginn as a game breaker quite just yet. I'll venture to say he'll take one back every season because he is so fast, but he doesn't have Cribbs' or Hester's skills.