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Pro Football 97 Team reports On the cover Features

By the Numbers
Projected Lineup
Player to Watch
Outlook
Jaguars

NFC East
NFC Central
NFC Weset
AFC East
AFC Central
1. Jaguars
2. Bengals
3. Steelers
4. Oilers
5. Ravens

AFC West

CNN/SI
Pro Football
Fantasy Football
Football Message
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This should be the year that safety Chris Hudson reaches the potential he showed at Colorado in 1995, when he won the Jim Thorpe Award as the best defensive back in college football. Hudson missed all of his rookie NFL season with a groin injury, and in 1996 he was still feeling its effects. But now he is healthy. Says Chuck Heater, Hudson's secondary coach at Colorado, "All the kid wants to do is play the game."