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The Toboggans · week 9 · 2005

Turk Odom leaves early, will miss 6 games

Marlene Ostrowski, column

Turk Odom RB
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Turk Odom is hurt again. 6 games, this time an AC joint. He reads Fragile on the card, which is exactly the bet everyone made. This was always the risk and everyone knew it.

6,059 yards over four seasons. Thirty-seven touchdowns. Fifty-seven games. There was a 2,544-yard year in there. This is not it.

Muddy Creek, Kentucky is where he is from. He is twenty-five. He would rather be almost anywhere else on a Tuesday. Nobody planned any of it. He was converted from quarterback, which he was not good enough at.

The Toboggans, 5-3, and nine weeks gone. Andre Lockett is in year two of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

Has a rule about not reading anything written about him, which he breaks.

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