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SOTT Draft Profile: T.J. Graham

Found March 14, 2012 on State of the Texans: Yardbarker Blogger Network
TEAMS: Houston Texans,  Florida State Seminoles
The next few weeks here on State of the Texans we will be doing some draft profiles of some particular players who could possibly fit into the Texans’ plans. We are not going to try to piece together scouting reports, but we enlist help of bloggers who actually cover the respective player and their school. In this profile we look at N.C. State wide receiver T.J. Graham, and at 5’11″ and 188 lbs. he has the making to be a good slot wide receiver at the next level. He has been labeled as a track guy in shoulder pads, but it will be interesting to see if he can develop at the NFL level with some good coaching. He showed his speed at the NFL combine, and possibly could find a way on a NFL roster because of that reason. We talk to Steven from Backing the Pack, a blog dedicated to the Wolkpack on SB Nation, and try to find out more about Graham.   Can you give us some background on Graham? Graham was a three-star recruit out of high school according to Scout.com, and a local product who h...
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