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Firebrands · week 5 · 2005

Firebrands lose Elias Mabry to a shoulder

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Elias Mabry RB
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Elias Mabry will miss 6 games with a shoulder. It is the third time this season he has been on the report.

4,874 yards over four seasons. Twenty-nine touchdowns. Fifty-seven games. None of the others were this good.

He turned twenty-four this year. He is from Bellwether, Ohio. Around the building he talks constantly and means about half of it. Nobody planned any of it. He was a mid-round pick who was the fourth-best player on his own college team.

The club is 3-2. Barney Grit is in year eleven of it. He is out of contract after this.

One more thing: he refuses to be taped by anybody but the same assistant trainer.

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