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Wes Jones
The Debt

Eighteen Points From Freedom

Wes finished last in 2025 by the thinnest possible margin — and the league has a long memory.

Wes Jones
From the BoothWes Jones · 2026 Season Preview · Aug 17, 2026
4-10final 2025 record
18.2points from avoiding last
9/9/9still outstanding

This is the cruelest number on this entire website and I want to make sure everybody understands exactly how it happened.

The math

Wes finishes twenty twenty-five at four and ten. So does Hoa. Same record, dead even, and in this league that gets settled by points scored across the whole season — fourteen weeks, hundreds of players, thousands of snaps, everything either of them did all year.

Wes: fifteen-oh-one point six.

Hoa: fifteen-nineteen point eight.

Eighteen points. Over an entire season. That's one tight end having a decent Sunday in October.

Anywhere in those fourteen weeks he finds eighteen more points — one start he doesn't sit, one guy he doesn't bench — and this is Hoa's article instead of his. Nobody ever writes this. Nobody ever brings it up again.

Instead he's twelfth, and twelfth in this league comes with an invoice.

What he owes

The 9/9/9 Challenge. Which, as of the last memo out of the Office of the Commissioner, remains outstanding. No documentation. No video. Nothing.

Now — in his defense

He's the pastor. He's the dad of this group. He's the guy who keeps it civil in that chat when it gets genuinely ugly in there, and I've seen what that chat looks like — it gets ugly.

Nobody actually wants to see Wes suffer.

They just want to see him do the challenge. There's a real difference between those two things, and this league is going to keep explaining that difference to him until he does it.

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