Rare running back job opportunity at Calgary Stampeder training camp
CALGARY — It’s been a long time since the Calgary Stampeders were asked, ‘who is going to run the football?’
From Joffrey Reynolds to Jon Cornish to Jerome Messam, the Stampeders had a star running back at every training camp for the last decade.
But with Messam signing with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the off-season, there isn’t an heir apparent in 2018.
“There’s a job wide open there,” head coach Dave Dickenson said Wednesday. “There’s a starting job and that’s a great opportunity.