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The Custodians · week 18 · 1977

Durable to Normal: Buster Zeller after the ACL

P.J. Thorne, injury desk

Boomer Zeller LB
The Custodians

Buster Zeller is back from the ACL, and the athlete who returned is not the one who left. His durability grade has moved from Durable to Normal. He is 30.3. That is the worst age for this.

Twenty-nine, and Bitter Lake, Idaho before that. Ask anybody: he has never been described as easy to coach. The route here: a late bloomer who did not start a game until he was a college senior.

The club is 8-9. Zane Quillfeather is new. There is one year left on the deal.

He keeps his father's work gloves in his locker, and always has.

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