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If you are looking for shreds of hope that Marvin Harrison Jr. might fall to the Chargers at the fifth overall pick, prepare for (some) good news.

Harrison Jr. has elected to skip the Combine, and instead will jump right into his preparation for the NFL season.

The combine has essentially become an industry within itself in recent years. With so many teams and general managers obsessing over the measurables and athletic testing of prospects, the prospects responded in kind by obsessing over 40-yard sprints and shuttle runs before their first training camp, sometimes leading to a lack of actual football prep.