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IT AIN'T EASY BEING #1

By David Fleming

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

The moment Darren McFadden clocked a 4.33 40 at February's NFL combine, the confidence game was on. Draftniks, convinced the Arkansas running back was the next Adrian Peterson, bumped him up their boards, off-field issues be damned. Fans in Miami, Atlanta and Oakland hit the chat rooms to lobby for his selection, confident the two-time Heisman runner-up could single-handedly turn around their sorry teams. McFadden himself gazed down from the postcombine press podium and said: "I'm the best pla ...

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