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Published Feb 23 2012 by Cleveland Sports News: cleveland.com

NFL Combine is draft's silly question season: Bud Shaw's Sports Spin

It's no wonder top quarterbacks like Robert Griffin III try to control what they can control at the NFL Scouting Combine, Bud Shaw writes in his Spin column.

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