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Draymen · week 10 · 1985

Nobody drafted this afternoon

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Rip Cordell QB
Draymen

Rip Cordell was drafted on a medical gamble that three clubs would not take and just put up 169 YARDS. This is the best thing that has happened all season. He is the last man off the field, every week, without exception, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It counts the same as anybody else's.

11,175 yards over seven seasons. 169 touchdowns. 115 games. This is the best of them. For two clubs.

Houston, Texas is where he is from. He is twenty-nine. Around the building he runs hot, and everybody has decided to live with it.

Draymen, 4-5, and ten weeks gone. Tiny Mothersbaugh is in year eight of it. There is one year left on the deal.

This feature ran in the paper in week 10 of 1985. The rest of the season is there too.

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