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Draymen · week 4 · 1978

Wendell Gundersen is back, and immediately useful

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Wendell Gundersen TE
Draymen

Wendell Gundersen returned from a shoulder and put up 17.1 points.

He has 1,997 yards from scrimmage in two seasons, and fifteen touchdowns.

He turned twenty-two this year. He is from Ashfork, Arizona. He keeps his own counsel and his own hours. He was a mid-round pick who was the fourth-best player on his own college team. He was three credits short of a nursing degree, once.

Draymen, 4-0, and four weeks gone. Tiny Mothersbaugh is new.

Gundersen never takes his helmet off between series.

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