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Yahoo Sports: Early Exits: Blaine Gabbert, Missouri's enigmatic fireballer

If you've paid attention to the draftier portions of ESPN's bowl coverage over the last two weeks, you may have noticed that the longstanding trinity of coveted, draft-eligible quarterbacks assured of going in the first round in April – Stanford's Andrew Luck, Arkansas' Ryan Mallett and Washington's Jake Locker – had been joined by a new interloper: Missouri's Blaine Gabbert, who fits right into the club as another big, prototypical pocket slinger who's well accustomed to scouts drooling over his potential. With his stock rising and an apparent first-round projection in hand, Gabbert made the leap official today, bowing out of Columbia ...

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