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Smelters · week 9 · 2020

The long way round: Bulldozer Upshot goes for 170

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Bulldozer Upshot RB
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Bulldozer Upshot was the younger brother of a player nobody in this league remembers and just put up 170 YARDS. This is the best thing that has happened all season. Two of them found the end zone, in game 8 of his season. It counts the same as anybody else's.

Across three seasons: 3,184 yards from scrimmage, thirty-one touchdowns, forty-eight games. This is the best of them.

Cork, Ireland is where he is from. He is twenty-five. Ask anybody: he is the first man in the building most mornings. In another life he was three credits short of a nursing degree.

The club is 5-3. Beau Farrow is new.

Collects vinyl and is insufferable about it.

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