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Cannoneers · week 7 · 1991

38 years old, 20.3 a week

Ines Okonkwo, numbers desk

Roman Passwater QB
Cannoneers

Roman Passwater, 38, reads Durable and is averaging 20.3 over the season. The decline curve has not found him yet. He reads Durable, which is most of the explanation.

Across fifteen seasons: 30,858 yards from scrimmage, 455 touchdowns, 259 games. There was a 2,822-yard year in there. This is not it. He has done it in five buildings.

Thirty-eight, and Gdansk, Poland before that. Around the building he is unfailingly polite and completely unknowable. He was the younger brother of a player nobody in this league remembers.

Cannoneers, 5-2, and seven weeks gone. Hoot Jessup is in year fourteen of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

Passwater calls his grandmother before every game and after every loss.

This feature ran in the paper in week 7 of 1991. The rest of the season is there too.

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