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The Mustaches · the Iron Jug · 2026

Nineteen

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Najee Fenwick RB
The Mustaches

I claimed Najee Fenwick would carry it twenty or more times in the final. He carried it nineteen, for forty-eight yards, and the Mustaches lost the Iron Jug by three. The club ran it forty times — Fenwick had said after the conference championship that they ran it forty-three — and the twentieth never came, because the afternoon belonged to Tevin Halloran: seventeen carries for 119 and the club's only rushing touchdown, from the man the chart demoted in week seventeen.

Wrong by one carry is wrong. I am one for two in print, and the season has no more carries in it.

This story ran on the wire in the Iron Jug of 2026. The rest of the season is in the paper.

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