The Toboggans
The Toboggans have lost Dominic Steele to a knee. Nobody who reads a durability grade is surprised. He reads Fragile on the card, which is exactly the bet everyone made. Draft accordingly.
Across six seasons: 7,260 yards from scrimmage, forty-five touchdowns, seventy-five games. His best was 2,243. This is not that, yet. Two of those shirts belong to somebody else now.
He is twenty-seven, out of Harlow Bend, Louisiana. He keeps his own counsel and his own hours. Nobody planned any of it. He was a basketball player until he was twenty, and it still shows. He drove a snowplow for the county, once.
The Toboggans, 6-11, and eighteen weeks gone. Dexter Jeffries is new.
Reads on the team plane, actual books, which his teammates find hilarious.