Roughnecks
Quinton Metcalf will miss the rest of the season with an ACL. The backup inherits the job for now.
Across eight seasons: 8,433 yards from scrimmage, thirty-seven touchdowns, 119 games. He has never had a year like it. He has done it in two buildings.
He is twenty-nine, out of Memphis, Tennessee. He is popular in a way that does not show up anywhere useful. Nobody planned any of it. He was drafted on a medical gamble that three clubs would not take. In another life he drove a snowplow for the county.
The club is 9-6. Isaiah Ulmer is in year two of it.
Metcalf does the crossword in the locker room before he dresses.