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Roughnecks · week 18 · 2016

Hank Crenshaw will not be the same

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Hank Crenshaw OL
Roughnecks

Hank Crenshaw is back from the knee but has lost a step, and his durability grade has fallen to Fragile. He is 33.2. That is the worst age for this.

He is from Cleveland, Ohio. He talks constantly and means about half of it. Nobody planned any of it. He was a walk-on at Pitchfork A&M who did not have a scholarship until his third year. He taught himself to weld from library books, once.

Roughnecks, 12-5, and eighteen weeks gone. Elias Lockett Jr. is in year three of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

He keeps his father's work gloves in his locker, and always has.

This feature ran in the paper in week 18 of 2016. The rest of the season is there too.

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