Grackles
Mercy Odom is 39 and averaging 11.2 a week. He reads Normal, which makes the mileage harder to explain, not easier.
He has 10,462 yards from scrimmage in sixteen seasons, and 141 touchdowns. There was a 2,491-yard year in there. This is not it. He has done it in seven buildings.
Thirty-nine, and Newark, New Jersey before that. He is the first man in the building most mornings. The route here: a late bloomer who did not start a game until he was a college senior.
Grackles, 0-7, and seven weeks gone. Hoot Jessup is new. He is out of contract after this.
He never takes his helmet off between series, and always has.