Roughnecks
Rhett Waddle had 111 yards. He was the younger brother of a player nobody in this league remembers. He will not step on the painted logo at midfield, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It is a long way from Sable, North Dakota, and he did not come the easy way.
The ledger, after sixteen seasons: 34,878 yards, 537 scores. His best was 2,915. This is not that, yet. He has done it in five buildings.
Thirty-seven years old. He would rather be almost anywhere else on a Tuesday. In another life he fixed diesel engines with his uncle.
Roughnecks are 4-1 through five weeks. Isaiah Ulmer is in year eight of it. He is out of contract after this.