Ty Murray: Here's a guy that just when he starts missing he steps up and drafts Copperhead Slinger and watching him ride previously you're thinking there's no way and then he has that Hail Mary go forward at any cost deal. It feels to me like you don't know which Travis Briscoe is going to show up and he's an incredible talent - I won't argue that - but you can't be extraordinary half the time. It's just not going to work. If you want to be a World Champion or even an elite level bull rider you can't be extraordinary half the time or part of the time. He's still a young guy so it'll be fun to watch him evolve and see if he can harness those great moments and start stringing them together more.

Cody Lambert: Valdiron has very few weaknesses about the way he rides. He can ride a lot of different kind of bulls. He's a skinny guy, but he's strong that pound for pound he could be the strongest rider we have. He's style is just a little more back then I'd like to see. I'd like to see him lean forward just a little more because you have more control of your body if you're riding forward. You have absolutely no control over what the bull does, but Valdiron sits in the chutes so long that bulls don't seem to buck as well with him as they do with the other guys and that really hurts him. If you'll notice his riding percentage is very high, but look how many 90-point rides he has.

Ty Murray: He rides his bulls with his upper body and has great counter moves. He's not a guy who turns his toes out and uses his feet. When his upper body game is on he's great, but when it's a little bit off it costs him. He doesn't have the secondary things that come into play. You can make a mistake with your upper body and have your spurs kind of save you for a split second and give you a chance to get back into the game, but that doesn't always happen with L.J.

J.W. Hart: He's probably one of the most mentally strong guys. He's focused. He doesn't get out and mingle a lot. He stays to himself, but it's his way of getting to the winner circle and he's been pretty dang consistent getting there. You scare Adriano away from a camera, but you can't make Mike Lee get in front of one. He lets his bull riding do the talking.

Jerome Davis: He rode with his knees up and his toes out like I did and some of the troubles he goes through are some of the stuff that I battled. He's got a good mindset about him and I think that's one of his strongest points—he's so focused. This guy will be a World Champion. You have to remember this guy is still young and he has a lot of learning to do. He's going to come in there one year and not only win it, but walk away with it. He's just now getting all his ducks in a row until he decides to knock in a homerun.

Cody Lambert: He's the best bull rider we've got right now. He's incredibly strong. He can ride every kind of bull and he's determined to win a world title. He's been second a few time when it looked like he was going to win it and it slipped away. To me, the difference this year is he knows he's going to win it. He doesn't hope he's going to win it. He knows he's going to win it. As far as I'm concerned it's over. He's already won it.

Jerome Davis: He rides as good as anybody in the world. There's no doubt about it. If anything he fights a few injuries, but he stays pretty healthy. He's still in that learning stage. Even with the success he's had so far I don't think we've warmed up what we're going to see out of J.B. before it's over. This guy rides so good that one day he's going to find out what it's like to win a world title and then it's going to be hard to take it from him and he could win two, three or four of them. He got a little taste of it last year, but if he ever gets it then it'll fuel his fire. He rides off of confidence and when he gets that kind of confidence he'll be one of the guys we talk about for a long time.

Ty Murray: He's my favorite guy right now. When you're talking about effort I don't think there's one guy on the tour right now that puts out more effort than Renato. He's really exciting to watch. It's a textbook, work a day, stay up over your rope and do all the basics to your best ability. He throws a ton of Hail Mary's and its all grit, try and determination. I just think it makes him really fun to watch and it garners my respect when I see a guy who guarantee to himself that the one thing he's going to guarantee to himself is that he's going to lay his guts out on the line. As a fan of the sport that's what I'm drawn to—the guys that before they crawl into the chute they say I can't guarantee I'm going to stay on, can't guarantee I'm going to get a good score, can't guarantee anything, but I can guarantee that I'm going to try my ass off until my head hits the dirt. He's that guy.

Cody Lambert: Mike White is a sentimental favorite, but he's not a threat for a World Championship because he can't stay healthy for a whole year and that's been proven over and over again. It's not necessarily anything he does. It's just a little curse that he has. He's injury prone. If you're injury prone and you're a bull rider those are two things that don't mix. He's tough and he rides technically correct. He puts out the effort most of the time and every now and then you can see where the injuries have taken their toll. Every once in awhile you'll see a week or two when he doesn't look totally committed and he fixes that. He refocuses and he fixes that sort of thing. He's not just a fan favorite he's one of the better bull riders we've got. He's a former PRCA World Champion, but I don't see a PBR World Championship in his future just because of where he's at in his career right now. I do see him - for a few more years - being a Top 10 guy.

Sean Willingham: The thing about Sean is that he stays near the top all along and, to me, he's one of the most underrated guys on tour. He doesn't get all the glamour and the glory, but you go back and look at your stats Sean's right there pretty regularly finishing in the Top 5. He's always right there. When he doesn't get back on the end of his arm he can ride as good as anyone and he hasn't been doing that lately. When he first started coming around he would do that a lot. He'd get back on his arm and try to ride, but in the last couple of years we've seen him start to stay up over the front of his rope. He's a heck of a bull rider.