Thursday, June 21, 2007

Former Rams in CFL

Seen while perusing PFW's CFL preview:

Joffrey Reynolds' CFL career is off to a heck of a good start. He rushed for 1,541 yards
for Calgary last year, gaining nearly 6 yards a carry. He also nearly topped the 2,000-yard
total rushing and receiving (1,942). He's the CFL's Marshall Faulk right now! (He does
get 18 games a season vs. 16, though.) Joffrey's the centerpiece of a potent offense,
but his Stampeders need to improve a lot on their 2-7 road record last year if they're
to challenge the Grey Cup-favorite B.C. Lions.

Fred Russell has signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. With all respect to the
190,000 fine citizens of Regina, Fred must really love football to be playing it in
Saskatchewan. Go Fred.

Last and certainly least, Eric Crouch will be trying to beat out 44-year-old Damon Allen,
Mike McMahon and former K-State star Michael Bishop at QB for the Toronto Argonauts.
Hey, somebody's gotta fill Spurgeon Wynn's shoes! McMahon figures to keep Crouch buried
at third-string like last year, when Eric completed 6-of-13 for 127 yards. Interestingly, one
of those was a 94-yarder that was not a TD. (Love that 110-yard field.) Leave that out
and Crouch was 5-12-33. Plus a pick. I doubt Bishop would do any worse than that, but
the Argos have used him exclusively as a goal-line rushing QB.

Wow, the Rams once used a third-round pick on a guy whose pro football career will top out
at third-string QB for the Toronto Argonauts.

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