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Landry appears poised to be next great safety

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

In the past 20 years, there has never been an NFL draft in which safeties outnumbered cornerbacks selected in the first round, and not since 1991 has there been a year when as many safeties as cornerbacks were selected in the opening stanza. In the same two-decade stretch, first-round cornerbacks outnumbered safeties more than 2-to-1, 69-28. Only six times in that period has the first defensive back off the board been a safety and not a cornerback. There were nine drafts in the past 20 years in ...

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