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Draft Lab: Brandon Lang's stock

By KC Joyner
ESPN Insider

Monday, October 5, 2009

One trap scouts easily fall into is "the cousin effect." The cousin effect happens when a college program has a string of successful players hit the NFL from a certain position and that success affects the way other prospects from that position and school are seen. This may be happening with Troy defensive end Brandon Lang. The Trojans have placed DeMarcus Ware and Osi Umenyiora into the NFL over the past few years -- so Lang is often looked at as being the next in line in that string. S ...

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