To be honest, I don't think that this is a ranking and that Elijah being the second pic is meant to say that he's Nr.2...I just understood it to be a compilation of actors under 30 the magazine likes, posted in no special order....There's nothing that indicates that he's Nr.2 or anyone else has a special position and if at all he would be Nr.29 since EW always has their ranking posted in a way that the best comes as last which would make Dan Radcliffe Nr.2, since he's in pic Nr.29...But as said before, I doubt this is a ranking with a special order...

And to be honest, I doubt that they would put Elijah before James McAvoy or Jamie Bell, seeing how they are everybody's (critic's) darling...

Just my opinion and how I understood it, so please don't attack me for it!