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Smelters · week 10 · 1981

The long way round: Whitfield Gaskin goes for 193

Wendell Sowerbutts, notebook

Whitfield Gaskin QB
Smelters

193 yards from a man who was converted from linebacker in his second professional season. The scouting industry declines to comment. Two of them found the end zone, in game 9 of his season. It counts the same as anybody else's.

Across five seasons: 10,244 yards from scrimmage, 158 touchdowns, eighty-nine games. There was a 2,265-yard year in there. This is not it.

He is twenty-seven, out of Baltimore, Maryland. Ask anybody: he has never been described as easy to coach.

Smelters are 5-4 through ten weeks. Nolan Danforth is in year four of it. There is one year left on the deal.

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

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