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Sentinels · week 1 · 2024

Nobody drafted this afternoon

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Lefty Vandergrift QB
Sentinels

Lefty Vandergrift had 145 yards. He was converted from quarterback, which he was not good enough at. He is 30, and he is popular in a way that does not show up anywhere useful. It counts the same as anybody else's.

4,753 yards over six seasons. Sixty-one touchdowns. Seventy-six games. He has never had a year like it. He has done it in two buildings.

He is from Cattaraugus Falls, New York. Before any of it he worked nights at a rendering plant to pay for a truck he never bought.

The club is 1-0. Quinton Tolliver is in year four of it.

He refuses to be taped by anybody but the same assistant trainer, and always has.

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