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NFL too fast for rookies? Not for sixth-round big man Buggs

You hear it from everyone — from the rookies to the vets to the coaches to the scouts and everyone in between. When players make the jump from college to the pro ranks, the very first issue they encounter is the speed of the game.

"Well, first off, the NFL is way faster than college,” Vance McDonald was telling me at the Rooney Complex when I asked him how rookie tight end Zach Gentry was fitting in.

Then there was this from Benny Snell:

"The game's, like, really fast," he said on Day 2 of Steelers OTAs on May 24.