Increased chatter late in the first round

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Posted by ESPN.com's Mike Sando General managers picking toward the bottom of the first round report increased conversations with teams interested in moving up into those spots. The Seahawks' top personnel guys, Tim Ruskell and Ruston Webster, noted at a news conference yesterday that they suspected teams might be looking to grab quarterbacks in those spots. Webster said he expects four ... [link]

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TRADE TALK FOCUSES ON LATE FIRST ROUND
Published 4/25/2008 by Michael David Smith at ProFootballTalk.com
... be found. It appears that a few teams that have high or mid-first-round picks are interested in quarterbacks Brian Brohm of Louisville, Joe Flacco of Delaware and Chad Henne of Michigan but don’t think they’re worth taking before about pick No. 20. Other teams that have high or mid-second-round picks want a quarterback but worry that they’ll be off the board by the time their picks come up. As Mike Sando of ESPN.com notes, the Dallas Cowboys are a team to keep an eye on. Dallas has twice traded picks in the 20s to teams that used those picks to draft quarterbacks: Buffalo in ...

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