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Copperheads · week 7 · 1992

The long way round: M. Fairbanks goes for 210

Wendell Sowerbutts, notebook

Copperheads

210 yards from a man who was signed off a practice squad in November and never gave the job back. The scouting industry declines to comment. He is 23, and he would rather be almost anywhere else on a Tuesday. It counts the same as anybody else's.

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