So much for the expiring collective-bargaining agreement between the Canadian Football League and its Players Association putting a chokehold on this off-season’s free-agent signings. They rebounded big-time, signing nine potential starters, five of which were already in the bag by the time the rest of the league had combined for just four free-agent signings. “You can, you can do anything,” said Eskimos general manager Brock Sunderland, who put his signature on the organization he joined in 2017. “Right now, if a player wants to sign, because there are some players signing, you can. It’s not mandated from either side where people are saying, ‘We’re not.’“A lot of people aren’t.

Source: National Post February 14, 2019 01:41 UTC