Gridiron.

Nightshift · week 7 · 2015

S.Q. Sanderson is 38 and still doing it

Ines Okonkwo, numbers desk

S.Q. Sanderson TE
Nightshift

S.Q. Sanderson is 38 and averaging 10.1 a week. He reads Normal, which makes the mileage harder to explain, not easier.

Across seventeen seasons: 7,209 yards from scrimmage, seventy-seven touchdowns, 208 games. There was a 1,108-yard year in there. This is not it. Four clubs have had him.

Osaka, Japan is where he is from. He is thirty-eight. Ask anybody: he is the one the young players actually ask. The route here: drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched. Before any of it he fixed diesel engines with his uncle.

Nightshift, 3-3, and seven weeks gone. Tevin Lambswool is in year three of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

He has a rule about not reading anything written about him, which he breaks, and always has.

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