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Dredgers · week 9 · 2010

The long way round: Bryce Oglethorpe goes for 194

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Bryce Oglethorpe RB
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Bryce Oglethorpe was rugby until he was nineteen, and he tackles like it and just put up 194 YARDS. This is the best thing that has happened all season. Out of two years he does not talk about, which sends one of these to the league about once a decade. It counts the same as anybody else's.

9,524 yards over six seasons. Fifty-six touchdowns. 102 games. This is the best of them.

He turned twenty-seven this year. He is from Cinderbrook, Pennsylvania. Around the building he runs hot, and everybody has decided to live with it. In another life he played the trombone well enough to be offered a scholarship for it.

Dredgers are 6-2 through nine weeks. Nikolai Renfrow is in year two of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

Oglethorpe refuses to be taped by anybody but the same assistant trainer.

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