Boarhounds
Franklin Curdle III will miss the rest of the season with an Achilles. He reads Fragile on the card, which is exactly the bet everyone made.
Across nine seasons: 18,619 yards from scrimmage, 310 touchdowns, 146 games. His best was 2,646. This is not that, yet. He has done it in three buildings.
He is thirty-one, out of Oakland, California. Ask anybody: he is the first man in the building most mornings. He was drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched. Before any of it he worked nights at a rendering plant to pay for a truck he never bought.
Boarhounds, 5-3, and nine weeks gone. Oscar Kearse is in year five of it. He is out of contract after this.
Curdle III collects vinyl and is insufferable about it.