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Draymen · week 3 · 1996

AC joint costs Aaron Quirk 5 games

Marlene Ostrowski, column

Aaron Quirk RB
Draymen

Aaron Quirk will miss 5 games with an AC joint. The backup inherits the job for now.

Across twelve seasons: 17,116 yards from scrimmage, 120 touchdowns, 190 games. His best was 2,118. This is not that, yet.

Sable, North Dakota is where he is from. He is thirty-four. Around the building he is unfailingly polite and completely unknowable. He was converted from quarterback, which he was not good enough at. In another life he dug graves for a summer and says it was the best job he ever had.

The club is 2-1. Wade Fontaine is new. He is out of contract after this.

He keeps his father's work gloves in his locker, and always has.

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