It doesn’t matter if the number is actually 21 or it’s just what Jeremiah Payton estimates now.
Twenty-one is the number which lives on in the Payton household like it’s some sort of urban legend.
Twenty-one — the number of touchdowns Payton ran for in eight games in his first season of organized football.
Payton can immediately call up the number, and so can his mother and father. It didn’t take anyone long to know Payton maybe had a future in the sport.
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