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T.R. Renfrow will miss the rest of the season with an Achilles. He reads Fragile on the card, which is exactly the bet everyone made.
Across seven seasons: 2,541 yards from scrimmage, fourteen touchdowns, seventy games. His best was 867. This is not that, yet.
He is twenty-eight, out of Ojo Caliente, New Mexico. He is popular in a way that does not show up anywhere useful. The route here: cut twice before his twenty-fourth birthday.
The club is 0-1. Barney Grit is in year eight of it.
One more thing: he does the crossword in the locker room before he dresses.