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More athletic interior offensive linemen in demand

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Seventeen of the 32 starting centers in the NFL last season were players who entered the league as fourth-round picks or lower. There were four times as many starting centers who entered the NFL as undrafted free agents (eight) than as first-round choices (two). And one of those two first-rounders, Jeff Hartings of Pittsburgh, actually was drafted by the Detroit Lions as a guard. So, the longtime practice of rating centers somewhere between slugs and afterthoughts in the personnel pecking or ...

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