Gridiron.

Turbines · week 10 · 2003

209 yards, and a road nobody would recommend

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Kareem Gravelle RB
Turbines

Kareem Gravelle had 209 yards. He was converted from quarterback, which he was not good enough at. He refuses to be taped by anybody but the same assistant trainer, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It counts the same as anybody else's.

Across two seasons: 3,591 yards from scrimmage, twenty-eight touchdowns, thirty games.

Auckland, New Zealand is where he is from. He is twenty-four. Around the building he talks constantly and means about half of it. He worked nights at a rendering plant to pay for a truck he never bought, once.

Turbines, 7-2, and ten weeks gone. Duke Gravelle is in year six of it.

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