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TAMPA, Fla. (May 21, 2003 11:36 p.m. EDT) - The longer Earnest Graham waited on the second day of the NFL draft, the more he hoped his phone wouldn't ring until after the seventh round.
That's when teams began scrambling to sign undrafted prospects, and that's how determined the former Florida running back had become to play close to his hometown of Fort Myers, for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
"I didn't want to go somewhere I didn't want to be in the sixth or seventh round," Graham said Wednesday after a two-hour workout at the team's training facility. "So to me, it worked out for the best. I think this is the ideal place for me." ...
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That's when teams began scrambling to sign undrafted prospects, and that's how determined the former Florida running back had become to play close to his hometown of Fort Myers, for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
"I didn't want to go somewhere I didn't want to be in the sixth or seventh round," Graham said Wednesday after a two-hour workout at the team's training facility. "So to me, it worked out for the best. I think this is the ideal place for me." ...
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