Gridiron.

Grackles · week 13 · 1987

N. Passwater to Ferrell Cabrera, again

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Ferrell Cabrera WR
Grackles

N. Passwater TO Ferrell Cabrera. AGAIN. That is 19 of them now. They have played 12 games together this season alone. It is the simplest thing this offence does and the hardest to stop.

Across two seasons: 2,109 yards from scrimmage, nineteen touchdowns, thirty-eight games. This is the best of them.

Salt Fork, Oklahoma is where he is from. He is twenty-three. Around the building he is the first man in the building most mornings. Nobody planned any of it. He was drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched.

The club is 7-5. Simeon Pruitt is new.

Has never once been photographed smiling on a sideline.

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