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* My initial thoughts with the group players on the field was this: Boy they are small. Now, maybe that’s because I am used to seeing mammoths like LaMarr Woodley and Ziggy Hood, so that’s to be expected. But still, first-round pick Jarvis Jones looked tremendously undersized especially compared to Woodley and Jason Worilds. Now, his speed, that’s just fine. Jones showed that off a couple times in getting around tackle Mike Farrell, but my goodness he needs to put on some girth. That goes for them all — Landry Jones, Markus Wheaton, Curtis McNeal, Reggie Dunn, and so on and so forth.

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* Go ahead and keep calling Le’Veon Bell a big back. It just makes you look foolish because Bell isn’t anything near being a big back (when I think of big back I am thinking Jerome Bettis, Michael Turner, Isaac Redman, LaGarrett Blount, Brandon Jacobs, Steven Jackson). Bell is listed at 6-1, 244 but said he is more around 230 but you sure can’t tell that by the way he looks. Bell showed some of his nimble nature that he was known for in college during the first day, but please, please don’t call him a big back. To me, Bell looks like Matt Forte.

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* The one draft pick that looks like he has it all is fifth-rounder Terry Hawthorne, a cornerback out of Illinois. He appears to be an early candidate for sticking to the 53-man roster come September.

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* Markus Wheaton is a fast version of Antonio Brown.

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A complete rookie minicamp roster appears below:

NO NAME POS EXP COLLEGE
2 Daniel Hrapmann K 1 Southern Mississippi
3 Landry Jones QB R Oklahoma
8 Caleb Terbush QB R Purdue
10 Markus Wheaton WR R Oregon State
13 Reggie Dunn WR R Utah
15 Derek Moye WR 1 Penn State
17 Justin Brown WR R Oklahoma
17 J.D. Woods WR R West Virginia
19 Kashif Moore WR 1 Connecticut
26-D Jared Holley CB R Pittsburgh
26-O Le'Veon Bell RB R Michigan State
29 Shamarko Thomas S R Syracuse
30 Terry Hawthorne CB R Illinois
38 Andrew Taglianetti S R Pittsburgh
39-D Isaiah Green CB 1 Fresno State
39-O Curtis McNeal RB F USC
40 Marshall McFadden LB 1 South Carolina State
44 Vince Williams LB R Florida State
45-D Alan Baxter LB R Northern Illinois
45-O Will Shaw TE R Youngstown State
46-D DeShawn Grayson S R UTEP
48 Luke Ingram LS R Hawaii
49-D Terence Garvin LB R West Virginia
49-O Ryan Clarke RB R West Virginia
51 Ivory Wade C R Baylor
61-O Nik Embernate G R San Diego State
67-D Cordian Hagans DE R LA-Lafayette
67-O Mike Golic, Jr. OT R Notre Dame
69-D Brian Arnfelt DE R Northwestern
69-O Joe Madsen C R West Virginia
71-D Omar Hunter DT R Florida
71-O Mike Farrell OT R Penn State
72-D Justin Cheadle G 1 California
72-0 Anthony Rashad White DT R Michigan State
74 Chris Hubbard G R UAB
79-D Antoine Hopkins DT R Virginia Tech
79-O Joe Long OT 1 Wayne State (MI)
82 Jamie McCoy TE 1 Texas A&M
91 Nicholas Williams DE R Samford
92 Hebron Fangupo DT 1 Brigham Young
95 Jarvis Jones LB R Georgia

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