COSBY — Devonte Wigfall took a handoff, dashed away from a defender, and looked for some room down the right sideline at Virgil Ball Stadium on Tuesday.
Eagles linebacker Eli Miller arrived to the same spot just as quickly, and he and Wigfall formed a crunching collision that sent an audible pop through the light rain that had begun to fall.
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