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Nightshift · week 11 · 2021

Nikolai Kowalczyk IV returns the favour

Marlene Ostrowski, column

Nikolai Kowalczyk IV QB
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A club let Nikolai Kowalczyk IV walk. He gained 148 yards on them. These two facts are being carefully kept apart in the postgame. He is 34 now, which was most of the argument at the time. Both clubs will insist there is nothing in it. There is always something in it.

The ledger, after twelve seasons: 20,385 yards, 352 scores. There was a 2,209-yard year in there. This is not it. He has done it in three buildings.

He is from Osaka, Japan. He has never been described as easy to coach. The route here: converted from quarterback, which he was not good enough at.

Nightshift, 6-4, and eleven weeks gone. Trent Upshot is in year two of it. There is one year left on the deal.

Kowalczyk IV answers every question in exactly one sentence.

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