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Some Second-Day Raven Info

Just to whet your draft appetite a little more, here's some more info on one of the Ravens' picks, fourth-round wide receiver Demetrius Williams, from my old paper in San Francisco. A few tidbits:

1) He was a college teammate of first-round pick Haloti Ngata at Oregon, which doesn't hurt, and which the Ravens seem to think is a plus for their young players (witness the choice of Oklahoma offensive linemen Chris Chester, who has two ex-teammates already here in Mark Clayton and Dan Cody).

2) His high school, De La Salle, just past the Berkeley hills in northern Cali, is a legendary program, which had a national-record 151-game winning streak broken two season ago and which includes Broncos LB D.J. Williams and Giants WR Amani Toomer among its current NFL players. As the story mentions, three players from the school were drafted over the weekend; that's the same number that Maryland had drafted.

3) He comes from good family (I can say that because it turns out that I know some of his relatives; in fact, they threw me a going-away party before I came here).

After all that, of course, he'd better make the team. Then again, it is fully understood here that whether the third/fourth receiver is Williams, Clarence Moore, Devard Darling or someone else, isn't as critical to the franchise as who's throwing to him. Free Steve McNair! (Hey, T-shirt idea. But I came up with it first.)

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