Carleton Ravens Football Shows its All the Way Back with 7 CFL Draft Picks
The CFL Draft showed that the Carleton Ravens football recovered has fully recovered after being ended in 1998 as a university cost-cutting measure. The proof: seven Carleton Ravens being drafted in the 2017 CFL draft, in just the fifth year after the program restarted.
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Seven Ravens were selected Sunday in the CFL draft, including receiver Nate Behar fifth overall by the Edmonton Eskimos. That left Carleton tied with the Montreal Carabins for the second-most players selected behind the Calgary Dinos (nine).
Not bad for a program in just its fifth season following reinstatement.
"Being in a group with Montreal and only second to Calgary, who's been to the Vanier many times, I feel like we've started to take those strides to the next level," said Sumarah, Carleton's head coach. "We've had other players in our program who were very good players but for whatever reason weren't drafted so I understand how hard this is.
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"The biggest thing is these kids bought into what we were trying to sell, they believed in what we were doing. I'm very proud of the accomplishments of these young men."
Also selected were defensive backs Tunde Adeleke (third round to Calgary) and Nate Hamlin (fourth round to B.C.), offensive linemen Zach Annen (fifth round to Montreal) and Kwabena Asare (sixth round to Edmonton), receiver Malcolm Carter — who played junior football last season — (sixth round to Montreal) and defensive lineman Emmanuel Adusei (seventh round to Saskatchewan).
It's the first time since '99 that Carleton players were drafted. More importantly, the seven are the first Ravens selected since football's return in 2013 and Behar is the school's first opening-round selection since '95.
Carleton football has enjoyed a meteoric rise under Sumarah, who became head coach in January 2012.
After going 0-8 his first season, Sumarah posted a 4-4 record in 2014 before leading the Ravens to their first post-season berth since '96 two years ago with a 5-3 mark. Carleton improved to 6-2 last year and reached the OUA semifinals for a second straight campaign.
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