You see this two or three times a decade. An Achilles at 25.7, and the player you knew is a player you remember. He lost 7.6 points of ability and will not get them back.
Twenty-six, and Sable, North Dakota before that. Ask anybody: he is the first man in the building most mornings. Nobody planned any of it. He was found at a regional combine by a scout whose flight had been cancelled.
Firebrands are 13-4 through eighteen weeks. Barney Grit is in year eighteen of it.
Will not step on the painted logo at midfield.