Prospectors
T.X. Lattimore, 41, reads Normal and is averaging 13.4 over the season. The decline curve has not found him yet. He reads Normal, which makes the mileage harder to explain, not easier.
The ledger, after nineteen seasons: 25,765 yards, 409 scores. There was a 2,448-yard year in there. This is not it. He has done it in five buildings.
He turned forty-one this year. He is from Sable, North Dakota. He runs hot, and everybody has decided to live with it. He was the son of a man who played eleven years at the same position.
The club is 4-6. Hoot Jessup is in year eleven of it. There is one year left on the deal.
He eats the same breakfast every game day and will not discuss it, and always has.