1.   He held on that pick through the playoffs, even when Dallas faced a red-hot Colorado team in the conference finals.

2.   Large numbers of staff members and advisers were said to be involved as the two sides pick through some of the thorniest legal issues raised by the proposed deal.

3.   Pensioners wheezing from black lung disease pick through heaps of stones outside abandoned mine shafts, looking for coal to burn.

4.   The Cowboys sent all potential top picks through the grueling inquest, designed to test intelligence, attitude, mental quickness and emotional stability.

5.   The teams will alternate picks through the remainder of the first round.

6.   This hoarding of draft picks through trades has long been the way that Jimmy Johnson operates, first as Cowboys head coach, and now as the Dolphins coach.

7.   Under terms of the deal, the Grizzlies could have acquired a draft pick through a trade and then given it to Detroit.