Meet market: say hello to Larry Brackins, the only junior college player among the 332 invited to to the NFL Combine. He needed more than good interviews and a favorable weigh-in--he needed to get noticed.(NFL)(Biography)

His wakeup call comes at 5:30 a.m. Good morning--and oh, by the way, please provide us with a specimen for the mandatory drug test. After breakfast, he goes across the street to the RCA Dome to run the physical gantlet. Eight different rooms, all occupied with a gaggle of team doctors, who seem to push, poke and probe every muscle, bone and tendon of his 6-4, 205-pound physique.

Then he is shuffled off to a hospital for blood work. It is the first time he has been stuck with a needle. ("I was cool with it," he says later.) Next on the agenda: meeting the media at the convention center. He manages to sneak in a 2-hour nap before dinner. Then comes the tour of ...