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Draymen · week 9 · 1998

393 — a personal best for Duke Checkdown Jr.

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Duke Checkdown Jr. QB
Draymen

Duke Checkdown Jr. set a career high with 393 yards, beating 313. He is 33, which makes it more surprising, not less.

He has 20,917 yards from scrimmage in twelve seasons, and 310 touchdowns. This is the best of them.

He is from Ashfork, Arizona. Around the building he keeps his own counsel and his own hours. The route here: the second man taken at his position out of Caldwell A&M.

The club is 7-2. Wade Fontaine is in year two of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

One more thing: he reads on the team plane, actual books, which his teammates find hilarious.

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