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Nightshift · week 14 · 1993

Devon Cannonbury was not supposed to be here

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Devon Cannonbury QB
Nightshift

I have been doing this long enough to have written off men like Devon Cannonbury, who was signed off a practice squad in November and never gave the job back. 166 yards is the league's way of saying nothing is settled. Two of them found the end zone, in game 13 of his season. The ones who arrive like this tend to know what it cost. That is usually worth something in December.

He has 19,856 yards from scrimmage in nine seasons, and 302 touchdowns. He got to 3,457 once. Not this time.

Thirty, and Ashfork, Arizona before that. He runs hot, and everybody has decided to live with it.

Nightshift are 9-4 through fourteen weeks. Meatball Speight is in year eight of it. There is one year left on the deal.

Will not step on the painted logo at midfield.

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