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Is this the best group of Canadian receivers ever?

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17.06.2026

It is easy to look back at another entertaining week of football and focus just on the quarterback play.

Four different quarterbacks (Zach Collaros, Chad Kelly, Davis Alexander and Trevor Harris) all surpassed the 400-yard passing mark.

Bo Levi Mitchell was “held” to under 300 yards, but he threw three touchdowns in a 37-27 bounce-back road win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Finally, Nathan Rourke went for 330 yards and a 15-yard touchdown run where he looked more like AJ Ouellette.

There is a flip side to this story and that is the overall play of the receivers, more specifically the Canadian ones.

I’m not sure if they’re inspired by the World Cup and that other brand of football, but I saw a lot of Nationals getting open and putting up big time yards after the catch.

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It is early, but in the first two weeks, four of the top five leaders in receiving yardage all possess a Canadian passport. Tyson Philpot is currently your triple crown leader, as no one has more receptions, yards or touchdowns than him. The BC Lions/Saskatchewan Roughriders game saw Kian Schaffer-Baker and Justin McInnis both go well........

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