... as the most important and potentially valuable player on the Washington State Cougar football roster this coming season.

OK, leading with ridiculous hyperbole is unbefitting any self-respecting sports writer.

Describing the improvements made by Washington State football coaches and players over the course of this off-season as "dramatic" is spot on. 

Spotlighting players who will lead to the resurgence of Cougar football is meant to simply wet appetites for the opening game against Stanford.

This being the third article of the Top 10 series, it's time to reveal No. 8.

To refresh your memory on which Cougar football players have been spotlight thus far, here's my initial two picks for the Top 10 in 2009:

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