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13 THE GAMECOCK Monday, April 25,1988
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Former Gamecock wingback Sterling Sharpe sh
was the seventh player picked in the first round o
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JJ GREEN BAY, Wis. ? The
|C Bay Packcrs listened to last-i
' trade talk Sunday and then s<
yiff USC wide receiver Sterling !
with their first-round pick in tl
tional Football League draft.
Pac^ers were interest
Wisconsin offensive tackle
^ Gruber, but when he was tal
N. Tampa Bay with the No. 4 sel
the versatile Sharpc was still av
when Green Bay picked seven
i Tom Braatz, the Packer
. ; B president of football operatior
- ] the choice of the 5-fo
H 202-pound Sharpe was an eas;
? we tooK bierung oecause
j the top-rated wide receiver tl
we had them rated," said Bra
"The first round,the way tl
seven picks were, there were m
f' ' " fensive players than defensiv
r-ijuju... defensive players were all gon
we picked. So we picked tl
player available, and that wa
/ in8 Sharpe," said Braatz.
But before the Packers co
nounce the choice, they listc
trade offers from four othei
jgj and used up nearly all of
minutes allotted teams betwet
round selections.
Sharpe was the second
tfifetfiVreceiver taken. Notre I
rt* moto Heisman Trophy winner Tim
in. Sharpe was chosen sixth by the Los Raiders.
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"You iust want to ff<
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elected care how high it is. You
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ted in
Paul
<en by '
ection, Packers Coach Lindy Infante s
ailable Sharpc should supply immediate h
th. for the team's sagging offense,
s vice Packers had trouble scoring po
is, said this past season. They were 5-9-1
ot-11, "Once this guy gets his hands
y one. the football, he's a potential all-i
he was way guy, said the nrst-year coa
tie way "You can't throw the football i
latz. the end zone all the time, you go
he first have guys who will catch it and I
loreof- it in there."
e. The Sharpe caught 56 passes for
e when yards with five touchdowns this
ic best season. He's also a kick retur
s Sterl- another of the Packers' wea
areas.
uld an- Sharpe returned 20 punts for
:ned to yards and brought back 10 kick
teams for 231 yards for the Gamecocks
the 15 past season. He had an even b<
:n first- statistical year as a junior with 74
ches for 1,106 yards and
1 wide touchdowns.
)ame's In his career at USC, he made
Brown catches for 2,444 yards and
Angeles touchdowns.
Sharpe played high school foo
/as right.
what
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Sterling Sharpe,
jurrricr uurncvi/iA wifigi/Ht/i
laid at Glennville, Ga., but his parents
iclp live in Chicago. He already has a
rhe degree in interdisciplinary studies
ints and has done post-graduate work in
retailing.
on "Green Bay throws the ball a great
the- deal and being a receiver, that's what
ch. you want to do. You want to have a
into chance to go in and do some things to
>t to help your team," said Sharpe.
:ake "With them throwing the football
and me loving to catch it, I think it
862 worked out treat **
past Sharpe Mid he had no idea where
ner, he'd be picked in the first round.
kest "I'd been told Detroit or Tampa
Bay, but I was also told I wouldn't
170 get past Green Bay," he said.
offs "I never projected myself to go
this that early in the draft. Everybody
etter else did. I just wanted to go in the
cat- first round. There's just something
10 about being tabbed in the first round.
You just want to go in the first
: 163 round, you don't care how high it is.
17 You just want to go where you can be
happy."
tball See "Skarpe," page IS
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