The Custodians
I have been doing this long enough to have written off men like Elmo Vermicelli, who was drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched. 217 yards is the league's way of saying nothing is settled. He is 28, and he is unfailingly polite and completely unknowable. It counts the same as anybody else's.
11,439 yards over six seasons. 163 touchdowns. Ninety games. This is the best of them.
He is from Pinch, West Virginia.
The club is 1-0. Hutch Ellington is in year two of it.
One more thing: he keeps his father's work gloves in his locker.