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Roughnecks · week 6 · 2001

Forklift Larue Jr. was not supposed to be here

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Forklift Larue Jr. QB
Roughnecks

Forklift Larue Jr. was converted from linebacker in his second professional season, and this club found him. 188 yards. Remember who was looking. Out of Saint Ambrose, which sends one of these to the league about once a decade. It counts the same as anybody else's.

Across eleven seasons: 8,274 yards from scrimmage, 110 touchdowns, 149 games. None of the others were this good. Four clubs have had him.

He is thirty-eight, out of Ojo Caliente, New Mexico. He says almost nothing and is listened to anyway.

The club is 3-3. Mack Truckington is new. There is one year left on the deal.

Larue Jr. answers every question in exactly one sentence.

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