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Sentinels · week 18 · 2018

Virgil Ottermole will not be the same

Marlene Ostrowski, column

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Virgil Ottermole is cleared. That is not the same as recovered. He is 30.6. That is the worst age for this.

Twenty-four sacks and zero interceptions across four seasons. For two clubs.

He is thirty-one, out of Bellwether, Ohio. He would rather be almost anywhere else on a Tuesday. He was drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched. In another life he fixed diesel engines with his uncle.

Sentinels are 9-8 through eighteen weeks. Beau Yarborough is new. The contract runs out in the spring.

Keeps his father's work gloves in his locker.

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