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[Dan in Lafayette]

As draft looms, they put on show for NFL personnel at Pro Day

James Varney / New Orleans Times-Picayune

BATON ROUGE -- After four hours of being measured, weighed, timed and appearing before hundreds of people in skin-tight pants and shirts webbed like Spiderman costumes, most of the LSU Tigers who participated in the program's Pro Day on Wednesday said they hoped to be considered football players above all.

"Long," cornerback Chevis Jackson said when asked what stood out of the whole NFL draft process.

Jackson and his former teammates have gotten used to these drills, having trained for them exclusively and done some or all of them before NFL scouts and coaches first in Indianapolis at the league's combine last month. Full Story – Picayunehttp://www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index.ssf?/base/sports-36/120659595650430.xml&coll=1