Last Year's Breakouts and Bums: A Scout's Take

One of the most challenging aspects of preparing for a draft is properly valuing players who were large disappointments, or surprising successes from the previous season. The profit potential of buying into a rebounding player is often offset by the risk of further decline. Conversely, paying full price for last year's breakout players can be very damaging if they are bound for regression.

Here is a look at several players whose value shifted in one extreme direction or the other last season, and an assessment of what is to come from them in 2013.

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