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  "textContent": "Mel Kiper Jr. has been covering the NFL Draft for over 40 years. Long enough to watch almost everyone who said he was wasting his time either come around or go quiet. A 2014 Bleacher Report profile caught him saying something that clearly resonated: that he believed this country runs on wanting to take people…",
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