Gridiron.

Hellcats · week 16 · 1998

2 games out, 25.9 points in

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Kellen Hardaway WR
Hellcats

Kellen Hardaway is BACK. 25.9 points in his first week.

Across two seasons: 863 yards from scrimmage, five touchdowns, twenty-six games. He has never had a year like it.

Twenty-six, and Belfast, Northern Ireland before that. Around the building he is the first man in the building most mornings. He was undrafted out of Fitchett State, signed the Tuesday after for the minimum. He fixed diesel engines with his uncle, once.

Hellcats, 7-8, and sixteen weeks gone. Solomon Waddle is new. There is one year left on the deal.

He reads on the team plane, actual books, which his teammates find hilarious, and always has.

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