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For the fourth straight year, the Miami Dolphins used a second-round pick on a quarterback, selecting West Virginia's Pat White with the 44th overall pick. White, a record-setting player in college, joined John Beck (recently released) and Chad Henne as recent selections, to go along with the trade that brought Daunte Culpepper to Miami prior to the 2006 season.

While there is still some debate as to what type of future White will have in the NFL, the Dolphins view him as a quarterback, while one scout recently told Omar Kelly of the Sun Sentinel that Miami is trying to "revolutionize pro football by bringing the spread to the NFL."

Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Chris Clemons spent today in the hospital after he was taken by ambulance off the Eagles' practice field this morning with heat-related dehydration, but he has reportedly been released and is now back at training camp.

Clemons was helped off the field during this morning's practice, given intravenous fluids and, about an hour later, taken to the hospital. He never lost consciousness. Temperatures were in the 80s today in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where the Eagles hold training camp.

NFL teams are urged to take every precaution during summer practices, and from all accounts the Eagles were appropriately cautious when Clemons began to show signs of overheating and dehydration.

Clemons signed a five-year contract with the Eagles in March after spending 2007 with the Raiders.

Eagles defensive end Chris Clemons was taken to a Lehigh Valley hospital this morning after leaving the training camp practice field with heat-related dehydration, Josh Barnett of the Philadelphia Daily News is reporting.

According to the report, the 6-foot-3, 240-pound Clemons was carted off the field and given intravenous fluids. inside the fieldhouse. He appeared conscious as he left the field.

About an hour later, an ambulance arrived to take Clemons to the hospital. The ambulance pulled out at 11:27 a.m., preceded by an unmarked police car and followed by a white SUV in which Eagles coach Andy Reid and director of security Butch Buchianco were riding.

The health and safety of players at training camp -- especially big players on hot days -- has come under increased scrutiny in recent years following the 2001 heat-related death of Vikings offensive lineman Korey Stringer.

UPDATE: Clemons has been released from the hospital and is back at training camp.

Everyone knows that to compete for an NFL playoff spot, you have to be able to run the ball on offense and stop the run on defense. Well, the Washington Redskins have suffered injuries in both preseason games that greatly affects this formula. In the first quarter against the Cincinnati Bengals, RB Clinton Portis went down with a shoulder injury. In the first quarter against the New York Jets, DT Cornelius Griffin went down with a knee injury.

With Clinton Portis uncertain for the season opener, the Redskins could begin the year aiming to at least do enough. And that's in addition to losing RB Kerry Carter for the season, RB Ladell Betts recuperating from nagging injuries and RB Jesse Lumsden nursing a groin injury. RB Rock Cartwright is the size of a smurf and isn't built to handle a full load, and FB Mike Sellers, well, he's a FB (though he looked good carrying the load for three carries against the Jets).

Stopping the run will already be harder without Griffin, but then you have to consider DE Phillip Daniels' back injury, CB Shawn Springs' abdomen injury, the loss of LB Chris Clemons for the season, CB Ade Jimoh's chest injury and CB Kenny Wright playing like CB Walt Harris did last year.

With a couple of weeks to go before the season's first Monday Night game between the Redskins and the Minnesota Vikings, perhaps some of the wounded warriors will be ready to go. The injuries for the most part are minor, but none of the injured have played a full 60-minute head-knocking game in months. If we're going to make a run for the Vince Lombardi Trophy, either trainer Bubba Tyer is going to have to find a miracle cure or someone is going to have to step up and offensively make sure we're still churning yards out on the ground game and defensively making sure no runningback carries the rock past the line of hemorrhage without getting their heads busted.