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Rookie Mayo blends into Patriots' linebacking mix

By Mike Sando
ESPN.com

Saturday, June 7, 2008

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Reporters swarmed the New England Patriots' minicamp practice by the dozens Friday. Not one of them scored an audience with the 10th player chosen in the NFL draft only two months ago. Jerod Mayo, the versatile rookie linebacker from Tennessee, walked off the Dana Farber Fieldhouse practice field and into the locker room without fanfare while coach Bill Belichick, safety Rodney Harrison and even running back Sammy Morris held court. Mayo might be the logical successor to ...

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