Gridiron.

Draymen · week 1 · 1986

The rookie can play

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Aaron Quirk RB
Draymen

Aaron Quirk had 161 yards and his first touchdown. He was not drafted at all. Remember the name.

He has 3,888 yards from scrimmage in two seasons, and twenty-one touchdowns.

Sable, North Dakota is where he is from. He is twenty-four. Around the building he is unfailingly polite and completely unknowable. Nobody planned any of it. He was converted from quarterback, which he was not good enough at. He dug graves for a summer and says it was the best job he ever had, once.

The club is 1-0. Tiny Mothersbaugh is in year nine of it.

Quirk keeps his father's work gloves in his locker.

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