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Anybody up for a little game? Welcome to the Second Annual GGN Three Card Monte contest. The goal of the game is to find the one (or 2 or 3) training camp nobodies who unexpectedly turn into somebodies over the course of the season.
The rules are simple. I will list at the end of this article a rather extensive list of players currently on the Jets roster who are long shots to make any significant contribution to the team in 2014. Most are long shots to even make the team. Your job is to choose the three and only three who make the biggest contribution to the 2014 Jets. Any NFL achievements made by a player while employed by another team due to having been traded or cut by the Jets are ineligible -- winners must make a contribution to the Jets. I will keep track of all entries and announce the winner after the last game of the regular season (assuming every entry isn't tied with zero contributions). The winner gets bragging rights for a year and a GGN T-shirt. All judgments as to the magnitude of any players' contributions to the Jets and the eventual contest winner will be made solely by Smackdad, and will be final and irreversible. Bonus points will be awarded to anyone brazen enough to choose a nobody that is currently not on the Jets roster but ends up contributing to the 2014 Jets.
Keep in mind that a player has to see actual game action to make a positive contribution for purposes of this contest. So, for example, somebody may show great promise as a backup center, and may in fact be the best player on the entire list, but if Nick Mangold stays healthy that guy will likely never see a single snap, and the long snapper who beats out Tanner Purdum will make a much bigger contribution for the purposes of the contest. Choose your three players accordingly.
All entries must be submitted in the comments to this article on or before Friday, July 11 at 11:59 pm. One entry per member. First entry of any member is the only entry that counts. No member is barred from choosing any players simply because another member has already chosen said player(s). If there are duplicate entrants in all three chosen players, and that combination of players is chosen as the winner, only the first entrant to post that combination of players will be declared the winner.
Simple enough, right? So, here's the list of players. Choose your 3 and find the lucky lady!
Quarterback
Matt Simms
Tajh Boyd
Running Back
Chad Young
Wide Receiver and Tight End
Colin Anderson
Michael Campbell
Quincy Enunwa
Saalim Hakim
Terrence Miller
Chris Pantale
Greg Salas
Offensive Line
Will Campbell
Dalton Freeman
Patrick Ford
Ben Ijalana
Brent Qvale
Caleb Schlauderaff
Markus Zusevics
Defensive Line
T.J. Barnes
IK Enemkpali
Tevita Finau
Tim Fugger
Anthony Grady
Kerry Hyder
Zach Thompson
Linebackers
Jermaine Cunningham
Troy Davis
Steele Devito
A.J. Edds
Trevor Reilly
Defensive Backs
Brandon Dixon
Brandon Hardin
Rontez Miles
Jeremy Reeves
Lowell Rose
Special Teams
Andrew Furney
Jacob Schum