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Line of Scrimmage: Final first-round mock draft

Ryan Tannehill is a very intelligent young man. Still, even he admits he doesn't have the slightest idea how his future as a professional football player will unfold.Just about everybody with a web domain seems to believe they know where the ex-Texas A&M quarterback who scored a brainy 34 on the Wonderlic exam will end up in the 2012 NFL Draft, which takes place this week at New York's Radio City Music Hall.Scour the Internet and you'll find countless numbers of mock drafts predicting the first round, and many of them have the same six players in the same order pegged with the first six selections. The consensus assumption is that Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck will go first to Indianapolis, followed by Baylor's electric Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III to Washington, Southern Cal offensive tackle Matt Kalil to Minnesota, Alabama running back Trent Richardson to Cleveland, LSU cornerback Morris Claiborne to Tampa Bay and St. Louis taking Oklahoma State wide receiver Justin Bl...

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