Ryan Grant

Eddie Lacy and Johnathan Franklin say they're already friends. The two Green Bay Packers rookie running backs are also roommates, teammates and competitors.With the team taking Alabama's Lacy in the second round of last month's NFL draft, then trading up to take UCLA's Franklin in the fourth round, both players understand their connection.And when they arrived in Green Bay for the team's rookie orientation camp Thursday, they learned they'd be bunking in together at a hotel near the airport, where the rookies are being housed until training camp kicks off in July or they find more permanent living arrangements."We're roommates in the hotel, we talk. But we're going to have to compete," Lacy said. "It's just like when you're in college - you get there, you meet the other running backs, you're all friends but you have to compete. It's no different here."Added Franklin: "On the field, we're competing definitely. But off the field we're definitely buddies. But we're here to help each other...

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