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The NCAA recruits Southern Ontario and Quebec hard, particularly for OL-DL types because they project a little easier than "skill position" guys and the athletic guys with that body type are few and far between. Not surprised we're seeing that trickle down to the CFL Draft.

His vertical was all right, nothing special but at least showing decent explosion for a DE. I think he's overrated at 6' or 6'5.

Plus Maher is a brutal kickoff and punt guy in terms of placement. Cost them a ton of yards in penalties. A metric of WAR for kickers factoring in all aspects (FG, Punt, Kickoff) would be more relevant. Not many teams are going to consistently roster an American to just kick FGs. That stat Taylor is talking about rewards consistency but also can be skewed by kick distance. For instance, Paredes is only on there once and he's extremely consistent, but doesn't kick as many from distance because he doesn't have to.

Money? Injury concerns? The fact that they'd have to win a job and likely wouldn't start on the game roster.

And when they decide they are sick of it the other teams (league) will pay.

Couple beat reporters trying to speculate that Young is getting a reasonable deal, but consider he's got a six figure job paying USD at U of T. He's gotta be getting close to that upfront just to show up.

His own agent says Vince Young is nowhere near "football shape." What a joke. How much are they giving him upfront?

Why? Lynch wasnt even a QB. Wildcat specialist. I don't know how that relates to Franklin. I bet they groom Franklin and deal Reilly unless Franklin gets a NFL shot.

Ankou is as much of a NFL prospect as anyone in the draft and playing a position that doesn't even exist in the CFL, the 330 lb nose tackle. He'd need to shed a bunch of weight and he's likely to do the opposite for a shot in the NFL at nose. I think he's going to fall into the 2nd or 3rd round.

They don't have a QB. The "cap space" thing is kind of a joke anyway because how it's done in the CFL everyone pretty much has the same amount until a game is played and then it gets interesting, unless a bunch of money has been deferred from the past seasons which is mostly a Taman and Jim Popp philosophy.

Keep reading 3DownNation and telling me what I don't know.

Wasn't comparing players directly, was responding to the idea that picking a receiver #1 is dumb. There hasn't been anyone remotely as polished as Vandevoort in a draft since Fantuz. Not just athletically, but as a receiver. The only guys near them would be Coehoorn, and maybe Shawn Gore. The rest in that time in terms of good receiver prospects have been just athletes that teams would have to teach how to play, basically like how a Simonise or Auclair would be in this draft. Vandevoort will be one of the top NI receivers as a rookie.

Which Arena League team do you cheer for?

It's been that way because we've had limited (the good ones) and pretty brutal players in that spot. If we had a Fantuz or Sinopoli they wouldn't be playing field WR and running decoy.

There's a pretty solid group of decent OL, nothing too special, in this draft. Unless someone really separates from the pack there's no reason to pick a OL out of desperation, even with either of the 1st rounders. Draft the best football player available and you'll be fine. Have to guard against the NFL stuff, but otherwise BPA.

I don't see why the player would even want that. The teams would sign guys for 10 years. Doesn't matter to them they can get out from under that whenever, the players can't and have no security either.

Why? Would Andy Fantuz have been the worst #1 pick too? Vandevoort is one of the top prospects at his position this decade. Obviously that only counts for so much but your post is pretty damn ignorant.

I don't think it's any riskier than drafting any other position. The only riskier position might be QB. Draft the best player.

That rule is legitimately crazy. The likelihood of Simonise serving that NFL suspension is low. Would that mean he'd never be eligible to play in he CFL since he can't be signed while under NFL suspension? Man this league is a mess on the PED issue.

Because of the overreaction in the aftermath. Should just suspend him and let teams decide if they want him with the 4 games looming.

Dumb dumb rule on the doping and draft. Players should stand in the draft with a penalty determined by the league. They could even just enforce the NFL suspension.

Point is that they obviously didn't think enough of him to have him on the active roster at the end of the season so why fret about it? If they wanted him he'd still be a Bomber.

The practice roster guys don't have actual contracts. It's like a week to week lease on a player. If teams want a guy they can sign him and then he's protected. Maybe the Bombers didn't care about Bennett?

Manziel has put himself years behind in actual development with his antics and leaving school early. I can't see him being a reasonable option for any pro football team playing outside of an arena for a couple years at least. It's all media hype. Plus he's pretty much the ultimate scrambling QB which literally hasn't worked in pro football for 20 years. If you can't throw from the pocket you are in big trouble regardless of how fast or evasive you are against modern defences.

He still choked in big games with Trestman. Once the Riders choked more. Trestman won't get a QB with that level of talent and experience. Ray's arm is shot. He'll have to develop someone and he has no track record of doing that in the Canadian game. In fact he's happy to tell everyone that he's not about developing QB's because the starter gets all the reps and attention. I think the Argos and Riders will be scrapping over Reilly next off-season and whoever doesn't get him will be absolutely screwed for a couple years at least.