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Copperheads · week 11 · 2025

Rooster Wombold was not supposed to be here

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Rooster Wombold RB
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Rooster Wombold had 204 yards. He was the son of a man who played eleven years at the same position. Two of them found the end zone, in game 7 of his season. It counts the same as anybody else's.

The ledger, after his first season: 497 yards, five scores.

He is twenty-four, out of Osaka, Japan. Ask anybody: he keeps his own counsel and his own hours.

The club is 6-4. Cormac Steele Jr. is new. There is one year left on the deal.

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

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