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WR Ted Ginn, Jr. (Official Thread)

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Ginn's selection delights Glenville
Dolphins choose neighborhood hero from Cleveland at No. 9 overall
Sunday, April 29, 2007 7:42 AM
By Ken Gordon


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

CLEVELAND ? One by one, they filed into room 235 at Glenville High School, turning it into a steam bath despite the cold drizzle outside.

The room was named the Child Development Center, and it seemed appropriate, because so much of the crowd yesterday represented the past, present and future of the Tarblooders? football program.
They were young men "in the pipeline to life" as Glenville coach Ted Ginn Sr. says, kids doing their best to avoid the crime and poverty that infect the neighborhood around this east-side inner-city school.
Here was Donte Whitner, a former Ohio State safety who became the first Glenville player ever drafted, No. 8 overall by Buffalo last season.

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Controversial pick Ginn might not be ready for start of camp
April 29, 2007
CBS SportsLine.com wire reportshttp://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/spon...;vip=no;sz=234x42;tile=5;ord=682111177885770? [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]

[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] DAVIE, Fla. -- Miami Dolphins coach Cam Cameron might want to brace for another round of boos: Top draft pick Ted Ginn says he doesn't know whether he'll be healthy for the start of training camp. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Ginn paid a visit to the Dolphins' complex Sunday and said his sprained left foot will be in a boot for about a month. Rehabilitation will follow, and Ginn said there's no guarantee he'll be ready to practice when camp begins in three months. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] "It's whatever the training staff says," the speedy Ohio State receiver-returner said. "I hope that I'm going to be able to be there day one." [/FONT]


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Ginn may be out as long as 3 months


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By Greg A. Bedard
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 29, 2007
DAVIE ? Dolphins first-round pick Ted Ginn Jr. acknowledged today he will spend at least the next month in a protective boot. The right foot sprain he suffered in January reportedly could keep him out a total of three months.
Dolphins General Manager Randy Mueller, through a spokesman, said the team doesn't yet know its plan for Ginn's recovery. However, it seems unlikely the Dolphins would spend the ninth overall pick on an injured player known for his speed and not have a rehab schedule laid out ahead of time.

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Le Batard defending a Buckeye??

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NFL DRAFT

To fans, Dolphins fumbled big time

BY DAN LE BATARD

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Reprensentatives of the Miami Dolphins make their draft selection at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The Dolphins drafted wide reciever Ted Ginn Jr. from Ohio State.

It is interesting and telling that the Miami Dolphins can't even get the easiest day in the sport right with their fans. The team selected an exciting blur with their first pick of the National Football League draft Saturday, a lightning bolt of a wide receiver from Ohio State named Ted Ginn Jr., but the selection was not met with the customary hope a team can usually expect on this day.
I saw Quinn play a lot at Notre Dame and saw a lot of hype but no ''Wow!'' factor, even though he had plenty of pro help at the skill positions and a pro coach in Charlie Weis. Quinn certainly didn't jump off the screen with ridiculous gifts the way No. 1 overall pick JaMarcus Russell did.But Quinn is a pretty boy from America's Football University, and ESPN's experts immediately began blasting Miami for not taking him Saturday. Again, we don't know how good any of these players will ever be. No clue. And neither do ESPN's experts.
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I think Ginn is going to be great, mind you. He's the fastest college football player I've seen since a fluorescent blur named Deion Sanders. He is an electrical power line who will find the end zone as a returner and a receiver, a combination of Devin Hester and Santana Moss. He will be the fastest guy on the field most Sundays. And he is something Miami needs badly -- a playmaker who will push Chris Chambers back into being what he is, which is a good No. 2 receiver who has been asked to do too much as a No. 1.
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Ginn learns Dolphins fans are a tough crowd


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By Kyle Nagel
Staff Writer

Monday, April 30, 2007
When the Miami Dolphins went on the clock during the first round of Saturday's NFL draft and Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn sat available, nearly everyone assumed Quinn would become the Dolphins' franchise quarterback.
Instead, the Dolphins chose Ted Ginn Jr., the wide receiver and kick returner from Ohio State with the ninth pick. I was wondering Sunday just how surprised and happy/sad the Dolphins community was, so I turned to Miami Herald columnist Greg Cote.

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Ted Ginn Jr. gets a hug from his mother, Jannett, left, and girlfriend, Crystal McCoy, as his father, Ted Sr., takes a call just after the Buckeye was selected in the first round by the Miami Dolphins.
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Ohio State wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr. gestures Saturday, April 28, 2007, in Cleveland after a call from the Miami Dolphins, who took Ginn with the ninth pick in the first round of the NFL football draft.
 
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guess the Dolphins weren't the only ones who thought Teddy was a top 10 pick

Texans wanted Ginn: One slot can mean a significant financial difference in the first round. And from a perception standpoint, it apparently can mean a lot, too. The Miami Dolphins, and in particular first-year coach Cam Cameron, caught incredible grief from their fans and the media when they chose Ohio State wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr. with the ninth overall pick in the draft. Miami fans, of course, wanted the team to stop the free fall of Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn at that point. But had the Dolphins not taken Ginn, who is still recovering from the mid-foot sprain he suffered in the Fiesta Bowl after being mobbed by teammates when he returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown, Houston would have grabbed him with the No. 10 slot. And the guess is that long-suffering Texans fans, tired of seeing the team field a bunch of stiffs at the wide receiver spot opposite Pro Bowl pass catcher Andre Johnson, would have had a much kinder reaction.

Ginn was the guy the Texans wanted, and one look at the wide receiver depth chart after Johnson shows why. As was the case for the departed David Carr, there aren't a lot of inviting targets for new starting quarterback Matt Schaub. Arguably the most surprising choice in the top 10 of the 2006 draft was another former Ohio State player: safety Donte Whitner, who was chosen by Buffalo with the eighth overall pick and had a marvelous rookie year for the Bills. The Dolphins can only hope their Buckeyes' surprise in the top 10 this year turns out as well.
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http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/insider/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=2860069
 
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Ginn determined to succeed
By Edgar Thompson

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Sunday, May 06, 2007


"You can't appreciate it until you're around it all the time," said Darrell Hazell, Ginn's receivers coach at Ohio State. "You might see a couple of clips here and there, but when you see it over and over and over again, you understand.

"When you study Ted, he's a freak."
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Take Terry Robiskie, the Dolphins' receivers coach who has followed Ginn's career for five or six years. The past two seasons, Robiskie has seen every Ohio State game and roughly 90 percent of the team's practice films because his son Brian also has played for the Buckeyes the past two seasons.

At the risk of South Florida sacrilege, Robiskie offers an opinion of Ginn he thinks fans will understand.

"He has Mark Clayton's speed and Nat Moore's quickness," Robiskie said, referencing two Dolphins stars. "You might want to get a Coke or might want to go to the bathroom ... you can't do that with this kid. He might score."
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"If I do what the team asks, I think the fans will come around and say, 'Hey, this was a great pick. This is what we needed,''" Ginn said. "You won't hear no more Brady Quinn."
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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/dolphins/content/sports/epaper/2007/05/06/a1b_dolphins_0506.html
 
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