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- ↑ "2000 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
- ↑ Former UCF Football Star Sentenced To 5 Years For Armed Robbery – News Story – WFTV Orlando Archived May 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "From Super Bowl to Super Busted".
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