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Dinner with D'Brickashaw: find out why Virginia's D'Brickashaw Ferguson is the draft's top O-line prospect-and much more--by joining his table of four.(NFL)

The Sporting News

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It would be some kind of dinner party. Malcolm X. Dave Chappelle. Evelyn McLendon. The talk would be insightful. Funny. Even a little profane.

The host would be D'Brickashaw Ferguson, who sees no problem including his maternal grandmother with a civil rights icon and an irreverent comedian at a table set for the three people (alive or dead) he'd most like to share a meal with.

"I think she'd be OK," Ferguson says. "She passed when I was young, but I was told she was comedic and serious."

Ferguson's choice of dinner companions reveals much about his personality. Like Malcolm X, he is a man of strategy and action. Like Chappelle, he enjoys ...

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