2017 CFL Combines

[jerrym]

A few top rated prospects not going? Justin Senior, Jordan Herdman, and the 2 CIS East-West US game participants - Geoff Gray and Anthony Auclair. Agents advising them not to attend to concentrate on NFL shots (chance of injury at the CFL Combine?) Also, former Dino star receiver Rishaun Simoinse not on the Combine list - had an NFL look last year, and hoping for a recall there (Bengals i think it was?).

Injuries are always a risk. I remember meeting a guy in university who in high school in Hamilton was considered as good as Tony Gabriel, who played in the same region. He won a football scholarship at a tryout for Kent State. However, after he was told he had made it, he continued the tryout as others were still being checked out, only to be injured. When he asked the Kent State coach how this would affect his scholarship, the answer was "We don't take cripples". I'm sorry I can't remember his name as it was more than 40 years ago.