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Moss, Brady on All-Pro team

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From the Associated Press

LaDainian Tomlinson and Randy Moss were unanimous selections to the Associated Press 2007 NFL All-Pro team on Wednesday. So was Tom Brady -- sort of.

The league’s most valuable player and offensive player of the year was chosen on each of the ballots from 50 media members who regularly cover the NFL. One voter, however, split the vote at quarterback between Brady and Green Bay’s Brett Favre.

Still, Brady was a runaway choice at the position, and was joined by four other New England Patriots on the squad: Moss, tackle Matt Light, cornerback Asante Samuel and outside linebacker Mike Vrabel.

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All but Moss made the All-Pro team for the first time; Moss was chosen as a Minnesota Viking in 1998, 2000 and 2003.

Tomlinson was named to the team for the third time. Joining Tomlinson, the league’s leading rusher, were fellow San Diego Chargers Lorenzo Neal, who clears many of Tomlinson’s paths from his fullback spot, and cornerback Antonio Cromartie.

Also with three players on the team were the Dallas Cowboys and Seattle Seahawks.

In all, 15 AFC players and 12 from the NFC were chosen.

Neal returned to practice for the Chargers exactly one month after breaking his lower left leg but is still doubtful for San Diego’s divisional playoff game Sunday at Indianapolis. . . . A Nevada judge dropped the Tennessee Titans as a defendant in a lawsuit brought by a strip club employee paralyzed in a triple shooting following a melee involving suspended player Adam “Pacman” Jones. . . . Seattle receiver Deion Branch, recovering from a strained right calf, practiced with the team for the first time in two weeks, but his status for Saturday’s game at Green Bay remains doubtful. . . . In his first comment on the subject since the season ended, Cleveland Browns General Manager Phil Savage said that quarterback Derek Anderson, a restricted free agent, did enough in his first season as a starter to deserve a long-term deal. “I think the deserving thing is to say he’s the starter going into next year,” Savage said.

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