Things rapidly change in FCW. It's the nature of developmental. Guys who were green as fuck mature and I'm a fickle bastard. For that reason I'd like to make an updated list and explain why I ranked them as I did.
1) Leo Kruger: This guy is easily the best guy in FCW. He outwrestles the entire roster and outspeaks most of them too. In 5 minutes he can tell a better story in the ring than others regularly given three times that. Also, he has a damn good rear naked choke.
2) Damien Sandow: Like Kruger he's a ring general and when given time he's great at using the ring and ref as parts of the story. After his "best of career match" with Bo he had to go way up. Why he's been in developmental for over 6 years at this point is beyond me.
3) Bo Rotundo: Once upon a time I thought Bo was mediocre as they come. Bland, boring and just so average. But after a string of good-great matches with Kruger and Sandow and doing his damndest to carry Curtis he's won me over. He plays his role as champion to perfection, and is still damn young and will only improve. Sadly he's injured at this time, but for the next few episodes he'll be there due to FCW's wierdass taping schedule so he's included, damnit.
4) Richie Steamboat: Richie keeping his spot in a place where people are moving up is impressive. And he does it because the one thing he's always lacked up until now he's got. He's found himself a character and taken a level in awesome. Richie Steamboat is a fucking badass and I love him for it.
5) Hunico: He also stays in spot because he's also made an effort to change himself now a more heelish character, foreshadowing that he's the Sinner Cara.
6) Husky Harris: And a new entry at number 6 is Bo's big brother. For a man of his size, Husky Harris is pretty damn good. He's athletic and just plain solid in the ring. Like Bo, he plays his part well, even if he's playing Ricky Morton for a guy half his size.
7) Seth Rollins: Mr Rollins has taken quite the fall in my eyes. He just doesn't seem to grasp the difference between wrestling in the indies and wrestling in front of a WWE audience and it shows. His matches with Ambrose just highlighted the problem and made it impossible to miss because he was working with someone who has less of a clue than him about how to tell a story. He'll do a big spot and then not follow up on it, go for illogical moves rather than ones that could win him the match. As I said on Twitter, he just doesn't get it. If he doesn't get it by the time he's called up he's going to fail. You heard it here first folks.
8) Ricardo Rodriguez: Ricky Rod keeps his spot for just being an entertaining guy. Currently the mouthpiece for a stable and (apparently) ADR's boss he's doing well for himself. He's also not too bad in the ring either.
9) Brad Maddox: Oh, I don't like Brad Maddox at all. But I will acknowledge that he's been instrumental in Richie's transformation from bland to badass, so he gets props for that. He can talk well and plays his part well too.
10) Briley Pierce: This guy has wrestled all of one match (he was squashed, by the way) but yet I love him. He's charismatic as fuck and I did his self depricating humour (he introduces himself by saying "I'm Briley Pierce and I STILL work here!" How can you not love that?). Ziggler's little brother has got a bright future ahead of him if his ringwork can catch up with his mic skills.
Honourable mentions go to:
Leakee: Another guy I hated for the longest time but he's doing a good job and is improving by leaps and bounds
Mike Dalton: He's done all of shit all since coming to FCW but job. But from his tag match this week I see a lot of skill and potential. I hope to see more from him in the future.
"The Ascention": FCW loves its stables and this is the latest. Fronted by Ricardo and Raquel Diaz (Shaul Gurrerro) and consisting of Kenneth Cameron, Tito Colon and Conor O'Brian (who's dropped the ratboy gimmick and just decided to kick some ass) they should provide some pretty good television if they're booked well. It's the FCW version of Nexus with two managers, basically.