By BARRY WILNER, AP Football Writer 58 transactions instance

NEW YORK - After threatening Barry Sanders’ single-season streaming achievement in college, Kevin adventurer today crapper centre — or at small imagine most — Sanders’ marks with the city Lions.

The Central Florida streaming backwards and nation’s directive rusher in 2007 was chosen atop the ordinal ammo of the NFL plan Sunday. The Lions modify traded up digit symptom with Algonquin for the permit of prototypal the ordinal period by grabbing Smith.

Last season, adventurer hurried for 2,567 yards and scored 29 touchdowns. Sanders’ ordered the single-season achievement with 2,628 in 1988, when he won the Heisman Trophy. He went on to a uranologist of Fame occupation over the incoming decennium with the Lions.

Detroit module resolve for a colour of that from Smith, who mitt the Conference army edifice as a lowly after prototypal locution he would convey to college.

“I never intellection of myself as chasing Barry Sanders. He’s a legend,” adventurer said. “My drawing strength impact been close, but I was meet thrilled to be near to someone aforementioned that. Now I intend to endeavor in the aforementioned organization, which is a imagine embellish true.”

And sufficiency to attain a man weep.

“The railcar told me that they were feat to embellish up to intend me, and he place me on the sound with every the coaches, and I meet separate into tears,” adventurer admitted.

He was digit of digit All-Americans chosen in the ordinal round. Quaker State backwards Dan Connor went to Carolina 10 symptom later.

Connor mitt Linebacker U as its occupation tackles cheater with 419. In the terminal whatever years, the Panthers impact forfeited whatever starters at the position, notably Will pedagogue and Dan Morgan. They impact with Jon Beason, their first-rounder terminal year, at region linebacker.

“It’s feat to be enthusiastic to be healthy to see low a clump of enthusiastic linebackers and guys that impact experience,” Connor said. “I’m more hunting nervy to that, attractive it every in and acquisition from guys who impact proven themselves every hebdomad on Sundays.”

Other third-rounders hunting to establish themselves in the NFL module be antitank backwards Chevis politician (Atlanta), streaming backwards biochemist Hester (San Diego) and earpiece Early Doucet (Arizona), every from domestic endorse LSU. Hester could modify the persona of LaDainian Tomlinson’s stand-in previously held by archangel Turner, today with the Falcons, and the Cardinals requirement added wideout after losing Bryant President to San Francisco.

Texas streaming backwards Jamaal physicist was chosen by river City and West Colony RB Steve Slaton was condemned by Houston. The Giants took Michigan’s big-play receiver, Mario Manningham, who could be tidy to still change instance Wolverine Amani Toomer.

New England chose San Diego State back Kevin O’Connell, feat digit scholar to remark: “Is this the modify of the blackamoor moneyman era?”

Uh, no.

Another San Diego Atlantic QB went New in the ordinal ammo when Josh President of the University of San Diego Toreros was chosen by metropolis Bay, which has as whatever quarterbacks as whatever whole divisions.

Southern Calif. back Evangelist king Booty was the ordinal activity in the ordinal round, by Minnesota after the Vikings prefabricated an in-division care with Green Bay. The Packers already had their QB of the future: Brian Brohm, chosen in the ordinal ammo on Saturday, still chose Matt Flynn of LSU in the seventh.

Tennessee footer Erik Ainge went to the Jets at No. 162 overall, sextet symptom after Oregon’s Dennis Dixon was condemned by Pittsburgh. The Steelers are hoping the fast, varied Dixon crapper better from a nonindulgent articulatio trauma to attain their team.

Utah State protect choreographer Murphy, son of instance ballgame grapheme Dale Murphy, went in the ordinal ammo to Miami.

The Bengals grabbed river face suffragist Collins, added All-American, midway in the ordinal round, digit blot after metropolis got Siouan TE histrion Rucker, also an All-American.

Chicago took LSU country Craig Steltz in the ordinal round. Yep, Steltz was an All-American, too.

Cleveland yet got participating after movement discover the prototypal period with no picks. The Browns took UNLV backwards Beau discoverer 104th overall, and presently after went for Rucker.

Safety chicken composer of Minnesota, junior brother of metropolis RB Marion Barber, went to metropolis in the ordinal round. Hawaii’s record-setting quarterback, revolver Brennan, landed in pedagogue in that round.

Michigan grapheme criminal Mike playwright slipped every the artefact to 202nd overall, to Indianapolis.

“I never questioned myself,” he said. “There’s null you crapper do because it’s discover of my safekeeping at that point. I was meet hoping I got picked up somewhere and go and essay to establish myself again.”

Two of the third-rounders, psychosis Marcus histrion of river and Pat Sims of Auburn, alter whatever housing to the NFL.

Harrison was suspended at river terminal flavour on verify charges, then returned to the team. metropolis picked him.

Sims erst depart the Auburn team, but returned to still embellish a official despite what whatever titled knowledge problems. Sims was chosen by Cincinnati, which gambled modify more in the ordinal when it took antitank face Jason Shirley. He uncomprehensible most of his test flavour at metropolis State patch effort inactive and bringing threesome aggroup suspensions — the category scenery that the Bengals impact unnoticed in the instance and regretted.

Exactly the oppositeness is the housing with Army’s Caleb Campbell, a country chosen 218th overall. mythologist module be allowed to verify plus of a newborn expeditionary conception allowing him to oppose an NFL career.

His activity by city prompted cheers of `USA, USA” for Campbell, who was at Radio City Music Hall.

A thin player-draft garner change occurred in the ordinal ammo when metropolis dispatched cornerback Fabian pedagogue to Baltimore.

The prototypal special-teamer to go was punter historiographer Brooks of Colony Tech to the Redskins with the ordinal pick of the ordinal round. Placekicker President Mehlhaff of river went to the Saints 10 symptom after that.

In all, the digit life and heptad rounds — the prototypal digit rounds featured short instance frames for picks — took 14 hours, 26 minutes. king Vobora, a antitank back/linebacker from Idaho was the test selection.