Running debate: Willis McGahee, well ahead of schedule in his recovery from a devastating knee injury, boldly predicts he will be a first-round pick and lead the league in rushing within two years. Now he just has to convince the NFL. (NFL).

While most elite college players prepare for the NFL draft at performance-enhancing training facilities, trying to reduce their 40 times and increase their bench-press reps, Willis McGahee is sweating it out at HealthSouth Doctors' Hospital in Miami. There he is, working out next to Joe and his rebuilt Achilles' tendon, and Marge, the hip-replacement patient.

Five days a week, the best college running back in 2002 arrives at HealthSouth to continue his rehabilitation from that hideous knee injury--three of his four ligaments were torn from their moorings--he sustained late in Miami's national championship game loss to Ohio State. It's a rather mundane setting for ...