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What your favorite player looked like on NFL Draft night

Jamie Squire
It's easy to forget, but the stars of the NFL Draft are usually, beneath the stunting suits and goofy draft caps, little more than kids. Some of them even look like they could use a Proactiv endorsement. To celebrate the spotty complexions, youthful exuberance and return of the NFL's most irrationally optimistic weekend, we dug into the vaults to find the swaggiest (and sometimes sweatiest) old photos we could find. No matter who your favorite player is, something tells us you won't believe what they looked like on their first day on the job.
Eric Dickerson - 1983

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John Elway - 1984

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Richard "Refrigerator" Perry - 1985

Jonathan Daniel
Troy Aikman - 1989

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Brett Favre - 1991

Perry McIntyre
Drew Bledsoe - 1993

Focus On Sport
Marshall Faulk - 1994

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Trent Dilfer - 1994

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Keyshawn Johnson - 1996

New York Daily News Archive
Orlando Pace - 1997

Al Bello
Peyton Manning - 1998

Ezra Shaw
LaDanian Tomlinson - 2000

New York Daily News Archive
Chris Samuels and LaVar Arrington - 2000

M. David Leeds
Eli Manning - 2004

Chris Trotman
Eli Manning Part Deux - 2004

Chris Trotman
Ben Roethlisberger - 2004

Tom Berg
Alex Smith - 2005

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Matt Leinart - 2006

Chris Trotman
Brady Quinn - 2007

Rich Schultz
Jamarcus Russell and Adrian Peterson - 2007

Chris McGrath
Joe Flacco - 2008

Jeff Fusco
Sam Bradford - 2010

Jeff Zelevansky
Beast Mode - 2012

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Odell Beckham Jr. - 2014

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Ezekiel Elliott - 2016

Kena Krutsinger
Jamal Adams - 2017

Lisa Lake