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The Mustaches · week 10 · 2025

The oldest trick this offence has

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Gunnar Lockett TE
The Mustaches

E. Stanhope TO Gunnar Lockett. AGAIN. That is 21 of them now. They have played 9 games together this season alone. It is the simplest thing this offence does and the hardest to stop.

Across four seasons: 1,841 yards from scrimmage, twenty-one touchdowns, fifty-five games. He has never had a year like it.

Verdigris, Kansas is where he is from. He is twenty-five. Around the building he keeps his own counsel and his own hours. The route here: a basketball player until he was twenty, and it still shows. Before any of it he worked the overnight shift at a grain elevator.

The Mustaches, 2-7, and ten weeks gone. Silas Beale is in year twenty-eight of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

Lockett refuses to be taped by anybody but the same assistant trainer.

This feature ran in the paper in week 10 of 2025. The rest of the season is there too.

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