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On pace for a 1,000-yard receiving season, the Saints' seventh-round pick, Marques Colston, may be the draft's best bargain.
On pace for a 1,000-yard receiving season, the Saints' seventh-round pick, Marques Colston, may be the draft's best bargain.
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The hope of potential has been replaced by the judgment of reality for the 2006 rookie class. That has SI.com's Don Banks projecting how the draft would look if it were done today.

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If the 2006 draft was held over, who would go No. 1?
Reggie Bush
Marques Colston
Matt Leinart
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