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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrankRizzo" data-source="post: 370642" data-attributes="member: 2232">I bought The Sporting News Draft Preview that year.And of course it's published quite a few weeks prior to the late April Draft, so they can sell it all of April and the end of March when excitement is starting.They had former GMs and scouts on their panel.And they had Rodgers the #1 overall pick, and did an article about Rodgers vs Smith, and they broke it all down and gave Aaron the edge.But in the month of April, the 49er scouts and other scouts determined Rodgers wasn't as good as Smith somehow. All I can guess is, as often has been the case (Dan McGwire before Farve in 91, Sam Bowie before Michael Jordan in 84, Greg Oden over Kevin Durant in 08-09), they overvalued heighth and just took the taller specimen.</blockquote>

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