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DE/OLB? Michael Sam, Missouri -- The truism I hold to most days is that the Combine can't hurt you, but it can sure help. But there are rare exceptions to that, and the big sinker this year seems to be Michael Sam. Which is unfortunate -- Sam proved all year that he is a terror off the edge, and his personal story and character are through the roof. But he's so limited in what he can do: he's not going to play sideline-to-sideline well, and he can't drop back into coverage, which all but kills his appeal to 3-4 teams. At this point he looks like a passrush specialist on 3rd-and-longs, which is always needed in the NFL, but he's going to have to earn it on special teams and play his way up the depth chart from there.
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