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Jim Fassel says he sat through the early stages of the NFL draft "with my fingers crossed." The player he'd drawn a bead on was a 5'10", 205-pound halfback from Virginia. Atiim Kiambu Barber, a.k.a. Tiki Barber—"My mom took the ti from my first name and the ki from my last," he says—is the school's alltime rushing leader and a talented punt returner. When Fassel saw him on film, however, he saw a pass catcher out of the backfield, a David Meggett, whom Fassel had coached as a Giants assistant, or a Larry Centers, whom he had coached with the Cardinals. "He's an instinctive runner," Fassel says. "He'll start off as a punt returner and a third-down back, but I can see him eventually as an every-down back."
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