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The Fighting Ostriches · week 18 · 2013

Normal to Normal: Brandon Ward after the MCL

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Brandon Ward DB
The Fighting Ostriches

Brandon Ward did everything right in the rehab. He is 37.1, it was an MCL, and some of it is not coming back. He is 37.1. That is the worst age for this.

Zero sacks and fifty-six interceptions across sixteen seasons. Five clubs have had him.

He is from Memphis, Tennessee. Around the building he is the one the young players actually ask. The route here: converted from linebacker in his second professional season.

The Fighting Ostriches are 12-5 through eighteen weeks. Reuben Dupree is in year seven of it. There is one year left on the deal.

One more thing: he reads on the team plane, actual books, which his teammates find hilarious.

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