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Smelters · week 10 · 2016

135 yards, and a road nobody would recommend

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Nikolai Mostert RB
Smelters

I have been doing this long enough to have written off men like N. Mostert, who was a late bloomer who did not start a game until he was a college senior. 135 yards is the league's way of saying nothing is settled. Two of them found the end zone, in game 8 of his season. The ones who arrive like this tend to know what it cost. That is usually worth something in December.

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