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Cannoneers · week 9 · 2018

D. Yelverton and Vern Wexler do the only thing they do

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Vern Wexler WR
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D. Yelverton found Vern Wexler 2 times. That is 33 together, and nobody in this league has anything better. They have played 5 games together this season alone. It is the simplest thing this offence does and the hardest to stop.

The ledger, after eight seasons: 4,589 yards, thirty-three scores. There was a 959-yard year in there. This is not it.

He turned twenty-nine this year. He is from New Antwerp, Wisconsin. Around the building he is unfailingly polite and completely unknowable. Nobody planned any of it. He was undrafted out of Pitchfork A&M, signed the Tuesday after for the minimum.

Cannoneers are 5-3 through nine weeks. Herb Garden is new.

He eats the same breakfast every game day and will not discuss it, and always has.

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