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Prospectors · week 17 · 1984

37 years old, 15.4 a week

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Trent Odom QB
Prospectors

Trent Odom is 37 and averaging 15.4 a week. He reads Iron Man, which is most of the explanation. It ends for all of them. Not this year.

Across eight seasons: 10,983 yards from scrimmage, 159 touchdowns, 112 games. He got to 2,265 once. Not this time. He has done it in six buildings.

He turned thirty-seven this year. He is from Reykjavik, Iceland. Ask anybody: he says almost nothing and is listened to anyway. The route here: converted from quarterback, which he was not good enough at.

The club is 8-8. Solomon Fields is in year seven of it. There is one year left on the deal.

He is the last man off the field, every week, without exception, and always has.

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