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I try not to get sentimental around here often. In fact, I try to be free of any human emotion whatsoever. Or maybe that’s just how I feel now in hour three on Day 3 of watching a ticker on multiple screens. Don’t forget, I burn retinas for a living so you don’t have to.

But it’s difficult to not dig up some pom poms for Marcus Lattimore. I won’t post the video again here (I’ve been guilty of that in the past), but when Lattimore shredded his knee in late October, in the immediate aftermath of the injury it was thought that living a normal existence would be an accomplishment. If you were to argue that his injury in that game is the most gruesome televised sports injury this side of Kevin Ware and Joe Theismann, you’d get little debate.

Then just a few months later, there was hope. First Lattimore ran in a pool, and then later he ran for scouts and completed a few basic drills during South Carolina’s Pro Day. It wasn’t supposed to happen that way, but there he was, talking about being healthy and ready for the 2013 regular season.

Now he’s the latest piece in a terrific draft by the 49ers, completing his improbable story (look how far we’ve come from showing no emotion, to outright swooning).

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Michigan’s Denard Robinson was drafted 135th overall Saturday by the Jacksonville Jaguars, but he may not have been the happiest person about the news after looking at this classic photobomb.

courtesy sbnation.com

A year ago on this day, the sanity of the Redskins was questioned. I did it, you did it, we all did it.

After investing heavily in Robert Griffin III through both what they gave up in their trade with the Rams and the first-round pick itself, three rounds later they drafted another quarterback: Kirk Cousins. For days and weeks, that spawned supreme idiocy among the talking head clowns. Leading that group was an ESPN personality who shall remain nameless as he questioned how much the Cousins pick would damage Griffin psychologically due to the supposed competition it created. Because, you know, NFL franchises routinely give up multiple first-round picks for a player, and then have said player hold a clipboard.

But at the time, there was another argument against the Cousins pick, one that was steeped in much more logic. The only way the Redskins would see any value at all from Cousins is in the nightmare scenario of Griffin suffering a serious injury. Otherwise, he’d sit…and sit.

Now we have this fun thing called hindsight to tell us that capitalizing on fourth-round value to catch a falling quarterback is wise, especially when your starter plays an effective yet dangerous scrambling game. If Griffin isn’t healthy enough to start early next fall, Cousins is a much more than capable temporary replacement.

Today, the Giants Kirk Cousin’ed Ryan Nassib.

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