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Draft Dreams Come True Rio Rancho's Alan Branch is favored to be one of the NFL's first- round picks

If pressed, Alan Branch would probably call himself a small-town kid with big-city talent.

That talent will take center stage Saturday, when he should hear NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell read his name during the first round of the 2007 Draft.

For Rio Rancho's Branch, a state player of the year at Cibola High School and All-American defensive tackle from the University of Michigan, a multimilliondollar paycheck is all but assured.

All that's left to determine is the amount of the contract and the ZIP code of his employer.

And, to reflect on how he arrived here.

"I do that a lot, all the time," Branch said in an interview Thursday afternoon at his Rio Rancho home. "Looking back, I think ...

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