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Auggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-11 01:16 PM
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Richard Dent was an eighth round pick?
What a find for 'Da Bears...

The Skinny on Greatness by By Melissa Isaacson, ESPNChicago.com / August 4th, 2011

EXCERPT: The Bears had traded their fifth-, sixth- and seventh-round picks to New England and Cleveland, and when they looked up after a lunch break and saw that the skinny kid (Richard Dent) was still available in the eighth, they grabbed him. He was the 203rd overall pick.

(Bill) Tobin (former Bears scout) was, of course, dead on, the pick worked out and 28 years later, the skinny kid has been recognized as one of the greatest football players who ever lived.

Dent will be enshrined in Canton on Saturday.

STORY: http://espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/story/_/id/6833495/richard-dent-transformed-skinny-prospect-nfl-hall-famer
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-11 06:38 PM
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1. Brady was a sixth-round pick
and they'll send a private jet to take him to Canton when the time comes.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 09:16 AM
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2. The Bust Is Probably Already Made
Just sitting in a closet somewhere until the day that they need it.
GAC
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 01:53 PM
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3. fellow inductee Chris Hanburger 18th round pick.
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