LOS ANGELES -- Standing out in the hot sun for six hours in full uniform and pads would surely tire the most seasoned veteran, but there was Terrell Suggs, in Baltimore Ravens garb for the first time, a microphone in hand and his taunts to fellow draft class members bouncing off the empty seats of the Los Angeles Coliseum.

	Terrell Suggs flexes more than his muscles when he's on the field.

He's only 20 years old, but Suggs is a veteran of vocal intimidation, which is the reason he usually declines the ampage.

"If they ever put a mic on me during the game and my mom heard what I said, she would not claim me," said Suggs, who suited up to pose for trading card photos during the NFL Players Association's recent annual rookie premiere. "All you'd be hearing would be, 'You little beep. Mother-beep. Beep, beep, ba-beep, beep-beep.' "

A 6-foot-3, 250-pound chatterbox, Suggs was among 30 players in this year's NFL draft class to make the trip to Los Angeles last weekend. In addition to gathering together the players for the photo shoots, the event gives NFLPA officials a sense of the personalities they will have to work with in the coming seasons. Who might make a good face for a corporate sponsor? Who might make an outstanding personal speaker? Who might be interested in making a charity visit?

Suggs, who set the NCAA single-season sack record with 24 while playing defensive end at Arizona State last season, stood out.

There's fun in the cards

With the millions of dollars that Baltimore Ravens quarterback Kyle Boller will be making in the NFL, he could buy virtually anything his heart desires. But he couldn't buy the feeling he had when he recently visited the card shop in Valencia, Calif., that he frequented as a child collector. "I've been going there since the fifth grade and in the window it said 'KYLE BOLLER CARDS COMING,' " Boller said. "It's hard to explain the feeling, but it definitely validates that you made it." Boller got a kick out of the fact that a card featuring him in his collegiate uniform was on the shelf above Peyton Manning's cards. Other rookies, who spent the weekend jumping on mattresses, running routes and throwing passes for their first NFL trading cards, also said being on a card would be priceless. "It will be very surreal," said Teyo Johnson, a second-round selection of the Oakland Raiders who said he was a big collector in the late '80s and early '90s. "I want to make sure that the card will be worth a lot." "I was a big collector so I'm definitely going to make sure I have all my cards," said tight end Dallas Clark, the Indianapolis Colts' first-round pick. "Then when my career is over I can look at them and brag about myself." Former University of Florida quarterback Rex Grossman, picked by the Chicago Bears in the first round, said he collected cards when he was a kid, including a set that had football player's wives in it. "I'm pretty sure I had Joe Montana's wife," Grossman said. At the end of Saturday's photo shoot, Donruss gave the players cards of themselves, as well as cards of the other players at the shoot. "Although the players have had so many pictures taken of them, seeing their reaction when they see themselves on a card makes the trip worth it for us,"said Donruss spokesman Tracy Hackler said. Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Anquan Boldin, who played at Florida State, got the cards autographed. "I'm gonna put y'all on eBay," he said. -- Darren Rovell

Although poor workouts are said to have dropped his draft stock from a top-five pick to the No. 10 selection, Suggs -- nicknamed "T-Sizzle" -- hasn't suffered from a bruised ego. And Suggs promises he will not be shy about carrying on the tradition of trash talking that has been an integral part of his gameday regimen since he started perfecting the art in Pop Warner games.

"It was easy back then because I was bigger than all of the others," Suggs said.

Others in the group included Carson Palmer, Byron Leftwich and Willis McGahee and nine other first-round pick from last month's NFL Draft. Like Suggs, Ontarrio Smith, a fourth-round pick by the Minnesota Vikings, also seemed in his element.

Wearing metallic purple Nike Air Hyperflight shoes for the photo shoot, he flaunted his video game victory over Houston Texans draftee Dave Ragone. After Ragone failed at in a two-point conversation that would have won the game, Smith celebrated by dancing and laughing in front of the television cameras. Unlike Utah State wide receiver Kevin Curtis, who was selected by the Rams, and Colorado's Chris Brown, who was taken by the Titans, Suggs had trouble keeping quiet throughout the weekend.

"The Mouth of the South. That's what the coaches called me," Suggs said, promising that he'll study the dynamics of the Ravens-Redskins rivalry to make sure he will be able to talk trash with passion. "In college, most of the time I was just playing talk. But it was better when I played USC or Arizona because I really meant it."

Suggs said one of his career trash-talking highlights was when his Sun Devils played in-state rival Arizona last year, just weeks after 40 Wildcat players demanded that head coach John Mackovic be replaced.

"Y'all don't even want to play with each other," Suggs recalled telling his opponents throughout the game.

If there's a point where Suggs draws the line on his trash talk it's in making sure that what he says isn't being recorded.

"I'll let (Ravens linebacker) Ray (Lewis) handle the stuff that needs to be said in the papers," he said.

Darren Rovell, who covers sports business for ESPN.com, can be reached at darren.rovell@espn3.com.