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Prospectors · week 13 · 1984

Prospectors without Najee Ingram again

Wendell Sowerbutts, notebook

Najee Ingram RB
Prospectors

Najee Ingram is unavailable. That is the season. That is his season.

4,406 yards over four seasons. Twenty touchdowns. Forty-three games. His best was 1,469. This is not that, yet.

Twenty-four, and Lagos, Nigeria before that. Around the building he runs hot, and everybody has decided to live with it. He was a mid-round pick who was the fourth-best player on his own college team. He was a competitive swimmer until his shoulders got too big, once.

Prospectors are 6-6 through thirteen weeks. Solomon Fields is in year seven of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

Ingram is the last man off the field, every week, without exception.

This feature ran in the paper in week 13 of 1984. The rest of the season is there too.

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