Original sentence: champions (such as Jennings, Vered, Eric Newhouse, Bob Verini, Doug Lach, Tad Carithers, John Beck, and Chris Miller), Rutter is widely considered to be one of the greatest Jeopardy.players of the Trebek era
Edited sentence: champions (such as Jennings, Vered, Eric Newhouse, Bob Verini, Doug Lach, Tad Carithers, John Beck, and Chris Miller), Rutter has a very strong claim to being the greatest Jeopardy.player of the Trebek era