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What will the NFL look like come Super Bowl 100? SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and Wired have teamed up to forecast the enormous changes on the horizon for the NFL over the next five decades. From virtual-reality training to gene-splicing, the Super Bowl 100 series, presented by Gatorade and Microsoft Surface, will explore every angle of NFL innovation, concluding with a sci-fi dispatch from the Big Game in 2066. Go to SI.com/SB100 and Wired.com/SB100

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April 5, 1999

Cecil Collins comes with lots of baggage and little college experience but enough talent to be one of the first running backs taken in the NFL draft

By John Ed Bradley

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