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Draft Lab: Syd'Quan Thompson's stock

By KC Joyner
ESPN Insider

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

There is an old marketing trick that we all fall victim to every day: the dropping of a penny from the price tag of a product. Marketers have known for decades that, no matter how hard people try, our brains are hardwired to think of a product's value based on the first digit of the price. This same mindset seems to have taken hold in the scouting world -- at least in the valuation of height among cornerbacks. I say this in part because of California cornerback Syd'quan Thompson. Dependin ...

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