THE CANADIAN PRESS
CFL.ca Staff
StatsGeek is a new weekly segment on CFL.ca featuring the work of league chief statistician Steve Daniel. It highlights growing trends around the league and much of the same data powering all nine CFL coaching staffs and head offices.
This edition of StatsGeek considers Canadian Content in the CFL, from an increase in CIS players on CFL rosters to a generation gap in Canadian quarterbacks.
StatsGeek: A closer look at Canadian content
More former CIS players (and players that attended Simon Fraser University) are finding themselves on CFL rosters than ever before. Is it safe to say that Canadian content in the CFL is stronger than it’s ever been?
Not including practice roster players, 179 players from Canadian schools are currently on CFL rosters — 34.2 per cent of the 524 players in the league. Meanwhile, 35 out of 63 players drafted in 2015 have been on an active CFL roster since the start of the season:
The matter of Canadian QBs:
Meanwhile, CFL fans have longed for a Canadian quarterback to make an impact, or at the very least get some game action. That happened over the weekend as Brandon Bridge took the field for Montreal as a result of two quarterbacks on the depth chart before him getting injured.
Bridge became the first Canadian quarterback to throw a pass in a CFL game since Danny Brannagan did it in 2010. If he starts this coming weekend, meanwhile, he’d be the first Canadian to start at quarterback since Guilio Caravatta for the BC Lions in 1996:
