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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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Since 2002, we've correctly projected the winner of every single Heisman Trophy contest. Starting in 2010, we're running a season-long Heisman Trophy poll, providing ongoing commentary, and aggregating the best news about the top Heisman candidates around the country.

When it comes to our projections, well, we really can't say it any better than ESPN's Neil Everett - just a few days before the 2009 winner was announced: