Dredgers
Reuben Whitaker II will miss the rest of the season with a ribs. That is his season.
Across three seasons: 917 yards from scrimmage, three touchdowns, twenty-three games. This is the best of them.
Twenty-six, and Grange, Illinois before that. Around the building he is popular in a way that does not show up anywhere useful. The route here: a late bloomer who did not start a game until he was a college senior.
Dredgers are 4-8 through thirteen weeks. Xavier Lockett is in year four of it. He is out of contract after this.
He will not step on the painted logo at midfield, and always has.