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Grossman Beats Odds, Named Starter

US Presswire

It's hard not to like Rex Grossman, and I don't mean as a quarterback; I mean as a competitor.

He wasn't supposed to open the season as the Washington Redskins' starter; John Beck was. But look who Mike Shanahan named Monday ... and it wasn't John Beck. Grossman not only beat out the former BYU quarterback; he beat the odds, and let's hear it for perseverance.

Grossman was told more than once this summer that Beck would emerge as the starter, but he wasn't told by the people who matter -- coach...

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