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Nightshift · week 11 · 2013

Applesauce Okonkwo is back, and immediately useful

Ruth Fairbanks, features

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Nightshift

Applesauce Okonkwo missed one game with a hamstring. He came back and put up 21.8 points.

The ledger, after eleven seasons: 10,224 yards, ninety-five scores. He got to 1,370 once. Not this time. Two of those shirts belong to somebody else now.

He turned thirty-two this year. He is from Tannery Row, Maine. Around the building he is unfailingly polite and completely unknowable. Nobody planned any of it. He was drafted on a medical gamble that three clubs would not take.

Nightshift, 7-3, and eleven weeks gone. Tevin Lambswool is new. The contract runs out in the spring.

Refuses to be taped by anybody but the same assistant trainer.

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