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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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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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - How fitting it was that a rookie, a second-round draft pick, no less, was the difference-maker down the stretch last night in a game between teams stocked with veterans, and one of them oozing in playoff experience.
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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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Dwight Freeney has the advantage here because he&#39;s too fast to be covered by just one player. He&#39;s playing incredible football right now and is absolutely terrorizing offensive lines.
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The quarterback is entering his prime years, the running back and tight end positions are stocked with talented players, and the up-and-coming offensive line has been rock-solid throughout the preseason.
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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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This isn't quite what Drew Brees signed up for. His new team's top receiver from last year was traded out of New Orleans during preseason, replaced by a seventh-round draft pick out of Division I-AA Hofstra. One of the Saints' most experienced linemen has been placed on injured reserve, and a rookie out of Division II Bloomsburg is starting in that spot.
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What to make of a likely first-round draft pick who, at 19, is emotionally mature and physically immature?
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NFL scouts and front-office executives were less than enamored of the top tailbacks available in the draft in April. The first didn&#39;t come off the board until the St.
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Anthony Gonzalez considers himself a quick study. But even he was confused by the Indianapolis offense. Three weeks ago, Gonzalez, the Colts' first-round draft pick, acknowledged he was still struggling to pick up Peyton Manning's repertoire of audibles and hand signals.
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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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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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Kevin Durant isn't even a SuperSonic yet. Heck, he's not even 19. Yet the dynamic Texas Longhorns forward and likely No. 2 pick in next month's NBA draft is already &#151; probably unwittingly &#151; assuming the role of potential savior for the Sonics' dead-end, 2007-08 season.
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com. Trying to predict who&#39;ll be taken in the Major League phase of Monday&#39;s Rule 5 draft is about as easy as finding your car in the mall parking lot during the holiday shopping season.
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As Andrea Bargnani told a curious media contingent about himself Tuesday, Tyrus Thomas sat a few feet away and was asked what he knew about the potential No. 1 pick in the NBA draft.
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Joakim Noah is so excited about fulfilling his dream to play in the NBA, he does not want to miss a moment of the run-up to Thursday's draft.