In praise of D’ronzjiah Mathews

The American football season starts in 16 days’ time (Cowboys at the Giants, 5 September). Meanwhile, Alex Massie, who shares my fascination with the names of NFL players, reports that the class of 2014 is beginning to take shape. This means a new crop of remarkable names. Among the 247 “best” players in their year (so far) are:

Da’Shawn Hand (pictured)
Quin Blanding
Dante Booker
Travonte Valentine
Raekwon McMillian
Budda Baker
Adoree’ Jackson
T’Kevian Rockwell
Chance Stewart
Verondtae Wilkinson
Adonis Jennings
Moral Stephens
Aggadoria Bowers
D’ronzjiah Mathews

Each one deserves to be rolled around the tongue, with special attention paid to Adoree’ (with a terminal apostrophe), T’Kevian, Verondtae, Adonis as a first name, Aggadoria and, of course, D’ronzjiah.

Hut, hut, hut.

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  Rolling black athletes names around on your tongue. Ri-i-i-ght. You are not Stewie Griffin by any chance?

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