Unfortunately the Chicago Butchers are on the way down as their veteran QB George O'Donnell creeps closer towards retirement, but there are still a few great players on the team making their mark. One such rising star is HeHateme PickSix II, son of the controversial San Jose cornerback. After the team traded veteran cornerback Tyron Shields to the Berlin Fire Salamanders, PickSix was called into action as the team's newly minted outside cover corner. And with longtime great Osiris Firestorm-Fjord set to retire soon, PickSix is in line to take the reins as the number one overall cornerback at the end of the season. In this season, PickSix's pass defense metrics are mostly average, but where he shines is on special teams. Through seven games he has fielded 11 punt returns (five fewer than the league leader Andrew Witten of the New Orleans Second Line), putting him behind eight other players in the league for sheer attempts. Despite this, PickSix leads the league in punt return yards with 189, a full 27 yards ahead of second place. Naturally, this also means that PickSix has the highest punt return average in the league at 17.2 yards per return, a full four yards of the next best punt returner. If the season ended today, PickSix would be able to claim the sixth-best punt return average of any player during a season in league history.
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