Roughnecks
Quinton Metcalf is hurt again, and this time it is a broken fibula and the whole season. It is the third time this season he has been on the report. Draft accordingly.
He has 12,976 yards from scrimmage in eleven seasons, and sixty-seven touchdowns. He got to 1,965 once. Not this time. For two clubs.
Thirty-two, and Memphis, Tennessee before that. 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. Before any of it he drove a snowplow for the county.
Roughnecks, 6-4, and eleven weeks gone. Isaiah Ulmer is in year five of it. The contract runs out in the spring.
He does the crossword in the locker room before he dresses, and always has.