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The Custodians · week 3 · 2008

Elmo Vermicelli has 160 and a story

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Elmo Vermicelli QB
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Elmo Vermicelli had 160 yards. He was drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched. He is 26, and he is unfailingly polite and completely unknowable. It counts the same as anybody else's.

Across four seasons: 6,264 yards from scrimmage, eighty-four touchdowns, fifty-one games. This is the best of them.

He is from Pinch, West Virginia.

The Custodians are 2-1 through three weeks. Hutch Ellington is new. There is one year left on the deal.

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

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