Gridiron.

Hellcats · week 17 · 1981

T. Rollins and Hollis Whitaker do the only thing they do

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

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T. Rollins TO Hollis Whitaker. AGAIN. That is 40 of them now. They have played 16 games together this season alone. It is the simplest thing this offence does and the hardest to stop.

He has 4,831 yards from scrimmage in five seasons, and forty touchdowns. His best was 1,150. This is not that, yet.

Coalport, Alabama is where he is from. He is thirty-one. He is unfailingly polite and completely unknowable. Nobody planned any of it. He was a mid-round pick who was the fourth-best player on his own college team.

The club is 9-7. Hakeem Jones is in year four of it. There is one year left on the deal.

One more thing: he carries a chess set on the road and beats everyone.

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