Year after year, Fletcher proves size doesn’t matter on defense
In the locker room, with another loss only a few minutes old, there was no snarl left on London Fletcher’s face. He still had some grass on his jaw, blades from the Lincoln Financial Field turf that had not yet been washed off. Eye black smudged his cheeks. A giant bandage pinned ice to his right knee, and he endured the same routine he had endured 194 previous times in the NFL, yanking the tape from his joints, heading to the shower. For the 96th time, Fletcher went through this routine after a loss, this one 27-24 to the Philadelphia Eagles. And before the eye black was gone, before his burgundy uniform pants were exchanged for jeans, the 34-year-old middle linebacker of the Washington …
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Year after year, Fletcher proves size doesn’t matter on defense
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