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Grackles · week 6 · 1989

Grackles lose Nathaniel Passwater to an Achilles

P.J. Thorne, injury desk

Nathaniel Passwater QB
Grackles

An Achilles at QB is not a small thing. the rest of the season is the optimistic read. That is his season.

18,555 yards over thirteen seasons. 270 touchdowns. 140 games. He got to 3,096 once. Not this time.

He is thirty-four, out of Ojo Caliente, New Mexico. He is the one the young players actually ask. He was a first-round pick out of Saint Ambrose, and everybody saw it coming.

Grackles are 2-4 through six weeks. Simeon Pruitt is in year three of it. There is one year left on the deal.

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

This feature ran in the paper in week 6 of 1989. The rest of the season is there too.

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