Calgary Stampeders make first cuts ahead of first CFL pre-season tilt
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The Calgary Stampeders stayed off the field Wednesday, given the busy schedule ahead.
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Camp was suspended a day with the upcoming Monday marking their first Canadian Football League pre-season tilt — that being against the host BC Lions at Vancouver Island's Starlight Stadium in Langford, B.C. (2 p.m., CHQR 107.3 FM/770 AM).
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The Monday matinee also marks a return by new Stamps QB Vernon Adams Jr. to BC, where he played the last two seasons with the Lions.
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The 10th-year quarterback threw for 2,929 yards and 16 touchdowns with the Lions in 2024. That followed a super season a year earlier with the West Coast squad — whopping totals of 4,769 yards and 31 totals, both career-highs for Adams.
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Now, he's trying to re-create similar success with the Stampeders, beginning with Monday's pre-season game if he, indeed, gets the call to arms in that game.
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The Stamps have four QBs on their roster and want to get a look at all of them in the pre-season ahead of the regular-season start on Saturday, June 7, against the incoming Hamilton Tiger-Cats at McMahon Stadium (5 p.m., TSN,CHQR 107.3 FM/770 AM).
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'I just like different energy and the different standard we have this year,' said Adams during training camp this week in Calgary. 'You know … everyone knows we need to step it up this year, and we need to start from Day 1 and limit the complaining.
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