Nfl draft 2012

• The NFL Draft kicks off on April 26 and preparations for the 2012 NFL season will start to really get underway. With the draft right around the corner, here is a look at the Top 5 linebackers on the board for the 2012 NFL Draft.
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• Ireland is free to keep his strategy to himself, but with the Dolphins finished setting their draft board and already targeting the player they want with the No. 8 overall selection in the first round, the glaring issues Ireland must address are undeniable.
(Miami Herald)
• At one time, the term linebacker conjured up images of middle-linebacker icons from the 1960s and 1970s like Dick Butkus, Jack Lambert, Willie Lanier, and Ray Nitschke.
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• CORPUS CHRISTI — Only one game separated the Dallas Cowboys from a trip to the playoffs this past season.
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• Finding impact defensive backs is not easy. Combining the 2011 (3) and 09 (2) drafts, there were a grand total of five cornerbacks/safeties taken in the first round. There are three tiers of top-end prospects: elites, blue chips and red chips.
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• The Miami Dolphins are in need of wide receivers and impact players in the 2012 NFL draft. But with Justin Blackmon and Trent Richardson both likely off the board by Miami's first-round pick, there is a bit of a drop-off in available offensive playmakers.
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• US PresswireSt. Louis Sam Bradford, left, and Carolinas Cam Newton have helped change the thinking that a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback wont be successful in the NFL.
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• Seven years ago, as Aaron Rodgers was enduring the most uncomfortable green-room experience this side of a David Letterman/Neal Patrick Harris exchange, most people in the NFL community felt for the spurned quarterback.
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