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Jamie Byrd: 'No answers' for being bypassed by NFL

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LOREN ELLIOTT | Times

After spending the last two years delivering some of the fiercest blows on USF's defense, S Jamie Byrd suddenly finds himself recovering from one.

Right to the psyche.

"I have no answers, really," he said.

By dusk Saturday, 253 players' names had been called at the NFL Draft. By dusk Sunday, countless others -- including six USF guys -- had landed deals as undrafted free agents, earned mini-camp tryouts or been invited to single-day workouts. Byrd's cellphone never buzzed.

USF's second-leading tackler, the only Bull chosen for January's East-West Shrine Game, said Wednesday he hasn't heard a peep from an NFL club since the draft started last Thursday.