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Minnesota Football: 3 Breakout Players to Watch for 2017

Defining “breakout player is rather subjective. Does going from already good to great qualify as having a breakout year when such a player is already heavily involved? Or does one have to go from obscure to one of our better players to truly be considered a breakout? Really both can be. I’d argue that Rodney Smith was a known name, a good back and broke out last year to be great. Blake Cashman fits the bill of going from obscurity to one of the team’s best defenders in the final third (or more) of the season.

So, based on this wide definition of “break out,” who are going to be this year’s breakout players?