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NFL locker rooms, particularly with expanded rosters in the offseason, are filled with players who have something to prove.
Will Blackmon knows that. But he also knows there's a time in a player's career when the urgency to prove himself is heightened, and even though it might be an overstatement to say the 25-year-old cornerback and returner has reached a now-or-never juncture, that's pretty much the way he's looking at 2010.
"It's an interesting period for me," said Blackmon, a fourth-round draft pick in 2006 now entering his fifth season. "This year I feel like I'm the one on the team who has the most to prove out of anybody.
"I think my time is overdue."
Overdue because in four years, Blackmon has played the equivalent of only two seasons, and he's entering 2010 recovering from yet another significant injury after tearing the ACL in his left knee in Week 4 of 2009.
The knee injury, which occurred when his leg planted awkwardly in the M..
Source: Packers.com
