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Yahoo Sports: Headlinin': Even the scouts are beginning to doubt their Locker love

Making the morning rounds. • I can't define it, but I know "It" when I see it. I'm not sure even Mel Kiper Jr. knows what he means by the precise scouting term, "'It' Factor." But whatever "It" is, Washington quarterback Jake Locker – once "etched in stone" by Kiper and other draftniks as the No. 1 overall pick next April– no longer has it as his mediocre senior campaign hits the stretch run Saturday against the new No. 1 lock, Bradford-esque Stanford slinger Andrew Luck. Kiper and well-gelled ESPN cohort Todd McShay, also a former Locker champion before his ...

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