The Porterhouse
Sundown Merritt had 135 yards. He was signed off a practice squad in November and never gave the job back. Out of Cutler Bible, which sends one of these to the league about once a decade. It counts the same as anybody else's.
Across three seasons: 5,511 yards from scrimmage, eighty-five touchdowns, fifty-four games. His best was 1,958. This is not that, yet.
Twenty-four, and Ashfork, Arizona before that. Ask anybody: he has never been described as easy to coach. Before any of it he drove a snowplow for the county.
The Porterhouse are 1-0 through one weeks. Cormac Bombardo is in year forty-three of it.
One more thing: he reads on the team plane, actual books, which his teammates find hilarious.