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Anvils · week 13 · 2025

The old man can still play

Ines Okonkwo, numbers desk

Percy Kearse TE
Anvils

Percy Kearse is 40 and averaging 9.6 a week. He reads Wrecked, which makes the mileage harder to explain, not easier.

Across eighteen seasons: 13,986 yards from scrimmage, 111 touchdowns, 269 games. He got to 1,198 once. Not this time. For four clubs.

He turned forty this year. He is from Lagos, Nigeria. Ask anybody: he is the first man in the building most mornings. He was a mid-round pick who was the fourth-best player on his own college team.

The club is 7-5. Lonnie Intangibles is new. The contract runs out in the spring.

Eats the same breakfast every game day and will not discuss it.

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