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The 75^th NFL Draft will be a three-day affair this year conducted out of Radio City Music Hall in New York City. It will be aired live on NFL Network and ESPN.

The first round will be held in prime time tonight (Thursday), starting at 4:30 p.m. PT. The second and third rounds will be on Friday at 3 p.m., while rounds 4 through 7 are on Saturday at 7 a.m.

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Fourteen Trojans have a reasonable chance to get drafted this year:

Charles Brown

Jeff Byers

Everson Griffen

Will Harris

Nick Howell

Stafon Johnson

Taylor Mays

Anthony Mccoy

Joe Mcknight

Alex Parsons

Josh Pinkard

Averell Spicer

Kevin Thomas

Damian Williams

And if they don't get picked, then they and the other 2009 Trojan seniors listed below are eligible to be signed as free agents:

Luthur Brown

Jordan Congdon

Robert Erickson

Nick Garratt

Adam Goodman

Garrett Green

Thomas Herring

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Some USC draft facts:

- In its history, USC has had 457 players drafted by the NFL. That's second only to Notre Dame's 462.

- USC has had more first round NFL draft picks (74) than any other school. Ohio State is second with 68.

- USC is tied with Notre Dame for most players selected as the top pick of the NFL Draft (5). Troy is the only school to have the No. 1 pick for 2 consecutive years (Ron Yary in 1968 and O.J. Simpson in 1969).

- Last year, a national-best 11 USC players were drafted. That was the second year in a row--and third time in 4 years--that USC had more players drafted than any other school. It was also the third time in those 4 years that USC had at least 10 players drafted.

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Here's what a couple NFL draft experts said last year about selecting USC players:

- ESPN's Herm Edwards, the former NFL head coach: "If you want to play pro football and you're a young high school athlete, you know going to USC is going to give you the best opportunity system-wise and competitive-wise on the field. That's what USC brings to the table. That's why historically, year after year, you see all these players coming into the league."

- ESPN's Ron Jaworski, the ex-NFL quarterback: "It's competition. It's fierce competition every day you go out on the USC practice field. Not only on Saturday when they play the game. Every day they're competing at the highest level."

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