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The official Page 2 NFL draft glossary

By Patrick Hruby
Page 2

Friday, April 24, 2009

Bright lights, big stage, utter befuddlement. Like a particularly aggressive fungus, the NFL draft has become both inescapable and irritating -- that is, irritatingly hard to understand. How to make sense of the rapid-fire scout jargon? The feverish football insider talk? How to distinguish a prospect who is "tight in the hips" from one who simply "carries his pads"? Not to worry. Page 2 is here to help. Granted, our colleagues at ESPN The Magazine already published a guide to Mel Kiper's moth ...

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