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Evaluations and draft are done; now it's time for Vikings rookies to play football

Hank Bullough and Dick Jauron were Green Bay assistant coaches when they touched down in Columbus, Ohio, in the spring of 1988.

They were there to work out a Spielman. They got two for the price of one.

"I used to leech off Chris," said Rick Spielman, the older brother by three years.

Chris was preparing for the draft as the decorated All-America middle linebacker from Ohio State. Rick was the out-of-work linebacker who had played at Division I-AA Southern Illinois, went to camp with the Chargers in 1987, got cut and still thought he could play.