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Anvils · week 1 · 2025

The rookie can play

Ines Okonkwo, numbers desk

Ricky Rollins RB
Anvils

Ricky Rollins had 79 yards and his first touchdown. He was not drafted at all.

The ledger, after his first season: 1,095 yards, seven scores.

Twenty-three, and Coalport, Alabama before that. Ask anybody: he talks constantly and means about half of it. He was cut twice before his twenty-fourth birthday.

The club is 1-0. Lonnie Intangibles is new.

One more thing: he refuses to be taped by anybody but the same assistant trainer.

This feature ran in the paper in week 1 of 2025. The rest of the season is there too.

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