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Duke Football And The NFL?

Oxymoron? Cognitive dissonance? Things that do not belong together?

This is a program that went five years without an NFL draft pick, a program that for years could claim long-snapper Patrick Mannelly as the only NFL player of consequence.

But that was the not-so-good old days, the days before David Cutcliffe revived the Duke program and started sending players like Jamison Crowder, Laken Tomlinson and Matt Skura to the big time.

Duke had its pro day Tuesday and 31 NFL teams sent representatives; the Cowboys decided to sit it out.

Eight players participated; linebacker Joe Giles-Harris, tight ends Daniel Helm and Davis Koppenhaver; wide receivers T.