40 players granted special eligibility for draft

The National Football League announced the names of 40 players who have been granted special eligibility for the 2007 NFL Draft on April 28-29.

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The East-West Shrine all-star game will be played in Houston later this evening at 7 PM. The Shrine game will be televised on ESPN. The Shrine game is the second most important all-star game after next week’s Senior Bowl game with rosters that include a number of interesting prospects for the 2007 draft including QB Chris Leak of national champion Florida. Leaf, for the record, will also be in Mobile next week for the Senior Bowl. Other players to watch in tonight’s game include WR Dallas Baker, also of Florida, Paul Williams of Fresno State and Jarrett Hicks of Texas Tech; Nebraska TE Matt Herian; Northern Illinois OT Doug Free; DEs Mkristo Bruce of Washington State and Dan Bazuin of Central Michigan and Wyoming safety John Wendling. And while the Senior Bowl is pretty much the preserve of major Division 1A schools, the Shrine game has a number of small school stars including a trio from Hampton including CB Travarous Bain, LB Justin Durant and RB Alonzo Coleman. The Shrine game also features a top sleeper prospect in TE Michael Allan of Whitworth. Also, as it has done for years, each Shrine team has a player from a Canadian university. This year’s Canadian duo is Waterloo OT Chris Best, who originally played at Duke, and Saskatchewan OT Jordan Rempel. In fact, the Shrine game has a distinct Canadian flavor as there is actually a third player from north of the border in Kansas RB Jon Cornish.....

Louisville QB Brian Brohm, who is expected to be one of the very top prospects at the 2008 draft after opting to pass on theis year’s draft and return to school, has undergone what is being described as minor surgery on his non-throwing shoulder. Brohm is expected to be ready when Louisville begins spring practice.....