Skhurana : 5 dream free agency pairings

Sareena Khurana

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We have a long way to go before Free Agency 2025 officially gets underway on Feb. 11 at noon ET.

That’s not a bad thing. Part of the fun of free agency is letting your mind wander and seeing where players could end up. Maybe there’s a receiver that you’ve always liked, who has felt like he’s on the verge of a breakout season in the right circumstances. Maybe it’s a quarterback whose style of play meshes in an offence you’ve long admired. Maybe it’s a heart-and-soul-type linebacker (we see you Wynton McManis and Jameer Thurman) that you can envision sparking your team’s defence, elevating them from contender to Grey Cup champion.

The big splashes in free agency are always fun — and there’s some of that below — but so often through the CFL’s long winter, a championship team comes together with one of those puzzle piece-type signings, where its impact isn’t fully felt until teams get on the field and teams start to separate themselves.

Here are four signings that I think could be dream pairings, with one that would at least be fun to see happen.

THE VA RECRUITING FIRM

Could Vernon Adams Jr. lure some talented former teammates to him and the Stampeders this off-season? (BCLions.com)

This has been touched on a couple of times on this site lately but it can’t be overstated. Vernon Adams Jr. has a long list of former teammates that will seemingly forever sing his praises. Let’s look at just a couple of high profile pending free-agent receivers as possibilities for the Stamps.

Pat Steinberg looked at this in his MMQB column this morning, but the idea of landing Justin McInnis in free agency is eye-poppingly good. Sure, a National who led the league in receiving last year would come at a hefty price, but there is a proven chemistry there that could help turn the Stamps’ fortunes around. Not to mention the depth that the receiving corps would have, with Reggie Begelton — a 1,000-yard receiver himself — in the mix, while we wait to see how many of the Stamps’ pending FA receivers come back.

Another familiar face with an elite pair of hands that you could consider here is Eugene Lewis. VA and Lewis lit it up in Montreal together in 2019, where Lewis enjoyed the first of what’s turned out to be three 1,000-yard seasons in his career. Putting another top-end receiver into the mix in Calgary with Begelton would be the makings of a scary receiving corps in Cow Town.

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