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If McCaffrey comes in second this year and is the early favorite next year, I think it'll be similar to when that happened with Luck. ESPN and other media folks will get bored with McCaffrey partway through the season and find a new flavor of the month to hype.

Eh, that didn't happen with Mariota. Luck's problem was that he had a worse year in 2011 than he did in 2010, so it was easier to give it to someone else. Regardless of what happens McCaffrey will be a frontrunner, so he'll need to put up better numbers next year. Which doesn't seem completely far-fetched to me.

[stupac2]

If McCaffrey comes in second this year and is the early favorite next year, I think it'll be similar to when that happened with Luck. ESPN and other media folks will get bored with McCaffrey partway through the season and find a new flavor of the month to hype.

Eh, that didn't happen with Mariota. Luck's problem was that he had a worse year in 2011 than he did in 2010, so it was easier to give it to someone else. Regardless of what happens McCaffrey will be a frontrunner, so he'll need to put up better numbers next year. Which doesn't seem completely far-fetched to me.