The National Football League has it's media lunch on the Thursday prior to the draft and that was true again for the 2007 NFL Draft. This event, held at Chelsea Piers, had the five invited NFL Draft players -- Ja Marcus Russell, Brady Quinn, Adrian Peterson, Calvin Johnson, and Gains Adams -- on hand for interviews and photo ops with the invited media, including us. Some of the highlights were Ja Marcus Russell's admission that he'd not got a call from the Oakland Raiders -- though I believe he was coached to say that -- and Brady Quinn's comment that the offense the Oakland Raiders (who have the first pick) are installing is very much like the system he worked in at Notre Dame. I asked most of the players if they had experienced any change in the way their friends treated them, and all in different ways said they had not, which is good to report. This is the first of a five-part video stream.

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