PLAYER TO WATCH

Austin Murphy

August 30, 1999

During drills at the Cowboys' training camp in El Paso two summers ago, a Raiders rookie with a bowling ball build was embarrassing some well-known Dallas veterans. "Who the f—- is number 90?" shouted Cowboys offensive line coach Hudson Houck. He's Grady Jackson, the spherical defensive tackle whom Oakland selected out of Knoxville College in the sixth round of the '97 draft. "Grady combines his strength with incredible quickness and leverage—and he's got unbelievable get-off," Oakland defensive line coach Mike Waufle says of his 6'2" 315-pounder. "He's learning as he goes. Last season he didn't know what a blocking scheme was."