COMMENTARY : Small schools can produce big-time players

Photo: Hampton University's DE, Kendall Langford #98 was selected in the 2008 NFL Draft 3rd Round by Bill Parcell to help rebuild the Dolphins defense. Here he crushes Norfolk State's QB Casey Hansen in backfield for another sack.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Hampton, Georgia Southern and Idaho. What is this ? Ohio State’s 2007 nonconference football schedule ? Delaware, Maine and Montana. Must be the top of the NCAA Division I-AA hockey poll, right ?

OK, you’ve probably figured it out by now. All of these low-profile schools, plus Portland State and Toledo, are represented on the Miami Dolphins’ new roster as part of Bill Parcells’ brawny draft weekend haul.

The guy from Hampton (enrollment 6,000 ) is defensive end Kendall Langford, the 66 th overall pick in the NFL Draft, and he’s just one of four Miami draftees from non-Bowl Championship Series schools.

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