Gridiron.

The Porterhouse · week 17 · 2009

The long way round: E. Churnley goes for 161

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Ezra Churnley RB
The Porterhouse

E. Churnley was a late bloomer who did not start a game until he was a college senior. Every one of those is a scout who kept his job anyway. He is 29, and he talks constantly and means about half of it. The ones who arrive like this tend to know what it cost. That is usually worth something in December.

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