CIS Roundup

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Pretty good game, except for the endless TV technical difficulties.

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UBC Thunderbird HC Blake Nill considers junior Trivel Pinto a potential #1 overall draft pick when the 2019 CFL draft occurs. Nill sees Pinto as a key player in the team's drive for a playoff spot.

“He had told me personally and it was great,” Pinto, the T-Birds’ star receiver and return man, said of coach Nill’s declarations that Pinto could be the top pick in the 2019 CFL draft, “and then he started using it in the media and I was like, ‘Whoa, he really believes that.’ “It caught me off guard when he started doing that. He really does think that highly of me. You want your coach to believe in you. It’s a good feeling.”
Pinto, a third-year pass catcher from Brampton, Ont., is one of the players that Nill will need to come through down the stretch if the TBirds are going to do damage in the U Sports football playoffs.
UBC (3-2) has three games left in the Canada West regular season heading into a Saturday visit (6 p.m.) to the Saskatchewan Huskies (2-3), and Nill’s bunch are tied with the Regina Rams (3-2) for second place, trailing the Calgary Dinos (5-0). The top four teams make the Canada West post-season. ...
Pinto tops UBC in receptions (27), reception yardage (357), touchdown catches (three) and allpurpose yards (632) despite missing a game with an undisclosed injury. He’s third in Canada West in all-purpose yards per game (158) and sixth in reception yards per game (89.3).
“He’s a pretty special kid,” Nill said of the six-foot, 195-pound Pinto. “Every team is gunning for him. They know what he brings and he’s still making things happen. He’s one of the better players in the country and it’s up to us, as coaches, to manage him well. It’s up to us, as coaches, to match him up well. We do that, and you’re going to see even more out of him.”
Pinto is one of the holdovers from UBC’s 2015 Vanier Cup national champions. Another was supposed to be receiver/return man Marcus Davis, but Nill confirmed this week that he’s been shut down for the season with a left knee injury. It’s the second straight campaign that he’s had his year come to an early end due to an issue with that knee.

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/v...82209421080219

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UBC Thunderbird HC Blake Nill considers junior Trivel Pinto a potential #1 overall draft pick when the 2019 CFL draft occurs. Nill sees Pinto as a key player in the team's drive for a playoff spot.



https://www.pressreader.com/canada/v...82209421080219

I was impressed by Pinto in that UBC Vanier win season a couple of years back - good receiver and returner.

IF he puts up some real good testing #s at the CFL Combine in his draft year, he could be a #1 overall type prospect, but lots of time till then, and lots of guys could emerge as top prospects by then - most likely an O-lineman would be higher rated as per CFL GOB standard thinking. When will that Ohio QB Rourke be up for the CFL draft ? - a Canadian QB going #1 overall ? = pigs will be flying somewhere first. ;o)