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Tale of the taped

By Molly Knight
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

This article appears in the July 27th issue of ESPN The Magazine. Eddie Royal was busted. It was day 4 of Broncos training camp last July, and then-receivers coach Jedd Fisch decided to call out the wide-eyed rookie wideout during a team meeting. "I'd drawn routes on the tape on my arms because I was scared of messing up," Royal says. "I wore long sleeves, but Coach nailed me." NFLers have been customizing their tape jobs for years. After all, the sticky stuff is their second skin, as much a ...

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