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Prospectors · week 12 · 2009

The old man can still play

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Nathaniel Lattimore IV QB
Prospectors

Nathaniel Lattimore IV is 36 and averaging 11.8 a week. He reads Normal, which makes the mileage harder to explain, not easier. It ends for all of them. Not this year.

Across sixteen seasons: 24,650 yards from scrimmage, 418 touchdowns, 257 games. There was a 2,323-yard year in there. This is not it. For four clubs.

He turned thirty-six this year. He is from Memphis, Tennessee. He would rather be almost anywhere else on a Tuesday. The route here: drafted on a medical gamble that three clubs would not take.

The club is 4-7. Donte Yelverton is in year two of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

Lattimore IV is the last man off the field, every week, without exception.

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