Prospectors
T.X. Lattimore, 41, reads Normal and is averaging 12.7 over the season. The decline curve has not found him yet. He reads Normal, which makes the mileage harder to explain, not easier.
25,765 yards over nineteen seasons. 409 touchdowns. 288 games. There was a 2,448-yard year in there. This is not it. For five clubs.
Sable, North Dakota is where he is from. He is forty-one. He runs hot, and everybody has decided to live with it. The route here: the son of a man who played eleven years at the same position.
Prospectors are 1-5 through seven weeks. Hoot Jessup is in year eleven of it. The contract runs out in the spring.
Lattimore eats the same breakfast every game day and will not discuss it.