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Draft closes doors for many veterans

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Monday, April 19, 2004

This is a week defined by the draft, beginning with NFL attorneys arguing to an appellate court panel why Maurice Clarett and Mike Williams and seven poseurs should not be in the lottery, and concluding with 255 prospects having officially entered the league. It is also a week in which the available unrestricted free agents without jobs, admittedly a dubious remnant collection at best, gets booted further into the collective subconscious. Oh, there could be a few last-minute free agent deals be ...

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