Christian Roland-Wallace

[JPH83]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

The thing I (think) I've noticed about corners is that year to year they're EXTREMELY volatile.

The truly excellent ones are excellent every season. But apart from that top 20% or so, they're up one year, down the next, maybe up the next year, maybe not.

Game to game within a season, OTOH, they seem to be pretty steady. You have a guy play 3 really good games and he's probably going to play MOSTLY good games that entire season.

Which is a long way of saying that Roland-Wallace has played pretty well this year. So I'd be reasonably confident that he'll play well if called upon again this year.

But that I wouldn't go so far as to say "Spags found another" because guys in that tier are just as likely as not to show up next season and suck sweaty ballsack.

I completely agree on CB variability, but honestly I think it can fluctuate pretty wildly from game to game as well. Williams is a guy that looks pretty solid one game and then rancid the next, and for the life of me I can't work out how he can be so up and down. It definitely feels like, as you say, there's a small cohort of REALLY good CBs like McDuffie and then a bunch of guys who can turn up any given game.

It's partly why it feels such a an important depth position. Lots of roles I think you have to keep people in place for a decent period. I'm way more comfortable than I used to be seeing some churn and burn of CBs even through a season. If you're not in form, meh, we'll find a guy who can piece together a couple of reasonable games.