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Anvils · week 8 · 2025

The old man can still play

Ines Okonkwo, numbers desk

Percy Kearse TE
Anvils

Percy Kearse is 40 and averaging 10.0 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. His best was 1,198. This is not that, yet. For four clubs.

Forty, and Lagos, Nigeria before that. 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.

Anvils are 5-3 through eight weeks. Lonnie Intangibles is new. There is one year left on the deal.

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

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