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Observations from a draft weekend in New York

By John Clayton
ESPN.com

Sunday, April 27, 2003

NEW YORK -- Except for the Minnesota Vikings, the NFL took a page from baseball during its annual college selection draft. To speed up the game, baseball cut down the time between pitches and innings. Maybe because this was considered a weak draft, NFL teams took less time between selections. A total of 32 teams selected 262 players in 15 hours and one minute. That's 3:43 a selection. That's pretty amazing when you consider the Raiders took the entire 30 minutes to make their two selections at ...

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