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Vulcans · week 6 · 1987

Nobody drafted this afternoon

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Whitfield Gaskin QB
Vulcans

Whitfield Gaskin was converted from linebacker in his second professional season, and this club found him. 220 yards. Remember who was looking. He refuses to be taped by anybody but the same assistant trainer, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It counts the same as anybody else's.

21,978 yards over eleven seasons. 314 touchdowns. 185 games. He got to 2,265 once. Not this time. He has done it in two buildings.

He turned thirty-three this year. He is from Baltimore, Maryland. He has never been described as easy to coach.

Vulcans, 2-4, and six weeks gone. Percy Okonkwo is in year two of it.

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