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Kovacevic: Jones' big frame accompanied by an even bigger presence

Twice.

Over the span of two hours of observing Broderick Jones, the Steelers' top pick in the NFL Draft, on this first day of rookie minicamp Friday at the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, I swear I saw the kid's face strain into a smile a total of two times.

This was one, when I'd asked him after the session how it felt to partake in an actual NFL thing:

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"Yeah, man, it feels great, you know," he'd reply with the briefest of beams as he looked back across the field.