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With the college football regular season just about over, NFL scouts are also nearing the end of their many miles on the road and all those nights spent in Hampton Inns. The first wave of team meetings to set the draft board will be happening in December, and when they do, we'll also see a flood of rumors and reports coming out of each front office.

Before that happens, I wanted to open my own notebook and share what connections I've heard from area scouts, coaches, directors, general managers and agents as the scouting process moves to Step 2. Which teams are already connected to which players? That's what we're about to find out.

Going top to bottom on the projected draft board, here is one player with first-round talent I've heard each team linked to.