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Marauders · week 10 · 2004

95 against the club that let him go

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Xavier Vance QB
Marauders

Xavier Vance had 95 yards against the Smelters, who used to employ him. Two of them found the end zone. The fixture comes round again next year.

23,250 yards over fourteen seasons. 345 touchdowns. 232 games. His best was 2,607. This is not that, yet. For five clubs.

Memphis, Tennessee is where he is from. He is thirty-five. Around the building he is the one the young players actually ask. The route here: the second man taken at his position out of Governors College.

Marauders are 5-4 through ten weeks. Donte Boyce is in year four of it. There is one year left on the deal.

Vance keeps his father's work gloves in his locker.

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