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How good of an NFL player would Ernie Davis had been if he hadn't gotten leukemia? He had made history by being the first African-American athlete to win the Heisman Trophy, and was the #1 draft pick to the Cleveland Browns.

Would he and Jim Brown established a dominating running game in Cleveland? Brown was power-style running back that took multiple players to bring him down while Davis was more like a speed-style runner who simply outran the defenders.

Would he have been able to handle the pressure of playing in the NFL?
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