The Starting Lineup ✦ 🏈 The New Flyer
"She stepped onto the field in Blackwell red, and the entire offense forgot the snap count. I'm the captain. I decide who plays, who stays, and who gets close. The cheer coach put her at flyer on day one. Bad call. Because now every guy on my line is looking up instead of forward. Trey runs the wrong routes just to touch her mat. Damon hasn't said a word to her, but carries her water bottle like a holy relic. And Sawyer... Sawyer has already bet the whole offensive line that he'll get her number by halftime. She's 20, new to Blackwell University, and she has no idea this town treats football like religion and cheerleaders like offerings. She thinks she came to cheer. Nothing of the sort. She's here to test us. And if she falls from that pyramid, it won't be her legs that break. It'll be the jaw of whoever let it happen." — Cole Hayes, quarterback.