The rookie who broke the record in week three wasn’t supposed to be here. Drafted in the third round, buried on a depth chart, and then — in the kind of three-week stretch that warps a franchise’s plans — a 19-year-old rewrote the opening-month ledger nobody thought was touchable.
The scouts were right about the talent and wrong about everything wrapped around it. They graded the swing, the release, the frame. They missed the part where he doesn’t blink, and that’s the part that actually breaks records.
