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Grackles · week 7 · 1989

The long way round: M. Jeffries Jr. goes for 150

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Milo Jeffries Jr. QB
Grackles

There is a version of M. Jeffries Jr.'s life where none of this happens. He was drafted on a medical gamble that three clubs would not take. Instead: 150 yards. He is 26, and he is the one the young players actually ask. It is a long way from Oakland, California, and he did not come the easy way.

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