ON A BLAST-FURNACE morning in the Florida panhandle last month, Kayleb Wagner takes the handoff and cuts, a little too casually, through a hole in the line. The only thing that feels harder for him than a running back with two hands? "Get noticed," he says. Wondering what her boy might be able to do.īorn with one full arm, Kayleb Wagner averaged 13 yards per carry and 244 yards per game last season. Is this how it will always feel? She falls asleep wondering why it has to be like this. Nothing is worse than when the nightmare starts with your eyes still open, and the mother lies there, listening to her son failing, over and over. As she lies down in her bed, she can still hear the boy, fumbling with the shoes and breathing heavy. She leaves him in the tan recliner in their cramped living room. He presses the laces against his nub once more. The mother works in landscaping, cutting down trees.
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