71.   Quite an accomplishment for a player who entered this season considered only a temporary fill-in, with little shot as the sole answer for the future.

72.   Salaam had split time with Lamont Warren the previous season, and the top Heisman hopeful from the Buffaloes entering the season was quarterback Kordell Stewart.

73.   Schottenheimer, who entering the season thought this would be the strongest Chiefs team he has coached, is obviously trying to grasp their fall from the AFC elite.

74.   Russell entered the season third on the depth chart.

75.   So now, three and a half years after Jones was the fifth player taken, he is entering a season as a starter for the first time.

76.   Sosa enters the season with nothing to prove.

77.   Stanford entered the season needing to replace the Collins twins.

78.   Stanford entered the season with many questions about the offensive line.

79.   Stoyanovich entered the season as one of the most accurate kickers in NFL history.

80.   Starting wide receiver Rob Moore, who signed on Thursday, enters the season having had only one practice.