Elks sign American quarterback Malik Henry

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EDMONTON – The Edmonton Elks have signed American quarterback Malik Henry, the club announced Friday.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.cfl.ca/2024/01/26/elks-sign-american-quarterback-malik-henry
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Many quarterbacks in camp pushing each other and looking for our third quarterback, including for often Team Jumbo - I like it!

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Yeah sure, keep dreaming that Jones isn’t going to make a complete mess of the whole thing.

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Wow. Way too much negativity for me, I think it looks brighter than last year.

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Jones has an aversion to Canadians period.
Is the Elk Canuk QB on notice ???

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I just saw the news, I’m an indoor football fan and wanted to see when the Carolina Cobras season started.

I understand that we want to see more Canadian QB’s, but in this case I’m glad, I watched his season at LCU and I think he could have had a better future playing baseball but his father almost forced him to play football.

I would like to see him make the final roster and see some action.

the funny thing is that we will have 2 Maliks Henry in the CFL.

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Since the rule change to “must dress three QB’s” most teams are keeping at least 4 QB’s on the roster because if someone gets hurt - you still gotta dress three.

That and it wouldn’t be the smartest thing to have Ford running the 3rd and short offence either…

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Can they not dedignste any player they want want as a QB?
By they, I mean any team. Let’s say two QBs go down can they just not say this guy who is a receiver right now, well we are gonna try him out as as a QB and see how it goes

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You used to be able to have a receiver or whatever you could use as “emergency QB” but not any more. (unless all three QB’s get hurt)

You have to dress three guys designated as QB’s on your roster for every game.

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And I like this better now at last as well given that all that can and will go wrong in time with only two real quarterbacks on game day, plus also one should save some mileage earlier in the season on the starter more often in those Team Jumbo situations and in any uncommon garbage time (i.e. no lead is safe and all that).

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Not true, Jones has supported him and he didn’t want to throw him to the wolves too soon.
Nothing wrong with bringing in other QBs, to push the established QBs
Ford is still young and maybe not ready to be a starter.

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That’s hitting the nail on the head.

…and there has never been an aversion to Canadian players. Matter of fact there was a Jones quote that a big part of what helped win the cup in 2015 was never having to make a decision about who was on field because of the ratio.

…and he built his teams that way since then. In the Elks final game in 2023 there were 21 Canadians on the depth chart, that doesn’t sound like a aversion to me…

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