Going Nowhere Fast, a Top Draft Choice Picks Up Speed
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After a dismal rookie season, Houstonâs Mario Williams is playing better and with more confidence for a team that is doing the same.
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About half the quarterbacks selected in the first round of the past five NFL drafts played a considerable amount during their rookie seasons.
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East Boston's Jermaine Wiggins has roamed from college team to college team, NFL team to NFL team. He fills perfectly the role of nomad tight end.
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Brady Quinn isn't ready to admit defeat in the race to be the top pick in the NFL draft. Seven weeks since JaMarcus Russell shot up the draft chart after beating Quinn in the Sugar Bowl, Quinn delivered his first major rebuttal in the competition to be selected first overall in April.
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The eight Giants chosen in last Aprilâs N.F.L. draft are still treated like rookies in the locker room, but have also become pieces to the teamâs sudden championship hopes.
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There may have been another to go picked in the first round had he declared. That&#39;d be Braylon Edwards, ladies and gentlemen, Michigan&#39;s multi-talented wide out.
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Greg Oden is the 1. The Portland Trail Blazers settled months of debate Thursday night when they chose Oden over fellow college freshman Kevin Durant with the No. 1 pick in a highly anticipated NBA draft.
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HEMPSTEAD, NY - He was drafted in the first round in 2000 out of Marshall, at the head of the same quarterback class that yielded Tom Brady, but Chad Pennington&#39;s road to success has been more deliberate.
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By JOEL ANDERSON AP Sports Writer. decade. He never expected to get the job, at least not so soon and not in. assistant and the team&#39;s director of player development.
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The NBA draft has played a minor role in the turnaround of the Wizards, but they are holding out hope that the 2007 draft will produce a special player.
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Marques Colston's rise from little known Division I-AA prospect to one of Drew Brees' go-to receivers has been so sudden, even his coach couldn't see it coming.
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He doesnât start for No. 1 USC, and ranks second on the team in rushing and receiving. Heâsa sophomore, and the previous winners have all been juniors or seniors.
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Ben Roethlisberger needed less than a season to close the considerable gap between himself and Eli Manning, the top choice in this year&#39;s draft.
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Thursday's draft will get interesting not with the top two picks but with the third selection held by the moribund Atlanta Hawks.
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For the first time, Americans were taken with the top two picks in the NHL draft.
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With the rising star from the Super Bowl out of the running, the Washington Redskins spent Thursday planning their next move.
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Some top prospects are a little overwhelmed after being thrown into the vortex of uncertainty, not knowing where they will start their careers and which trades they may be involved in.