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Historically black colleges continue to fall off radar

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Friday, May 4, 2007

With five players invited to the scouting combine in Indianapolis in February, it appeared that tiny Hampton University, a Division I-AA football powerhouse, might lead the way this year for a long-overdue resurgence by historically black colleges and universities in the NFL draft. Each of the five Hampton players, after all, seemed relatively well-regarded by scouts. And the assessment in the early spring was that at least four of the five would be drafted. Those lofty expectations aside, ...

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