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- ↑ "1998 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 29, 2023.
- ↑ Triplett, Mike. "New Orleans Saints' Norman Hand remembered as 'one of the good guys'". NOLA. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
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