Five athletes associated with the Concordia Stingers football program have been selected to participate in CFL combines next month, including the Eastern regional event that will be held at the Stinger Dome in N.D.G. on March 10.
The top 35 CFL prospects have been invited directly to the national combine in Regina March 23-25. Concordia’s Sam Narkaj, a fourth-year defensive tackle, has earned an invitation to the main evaluation camp where the league's general managers, coaches and scouts will evaluate the country's highest-ranking football prospects for the 2017 draft.
A 2015 CIS all-Canadian, who checks in at 6 feet, 295 pounds, Narkaj had 23 tackles, including six sacks, this past season.
Another 125 football players have been selected to participate in one of three regional camps – East (Concordia), Ontario (Toronto) and West (Regina). From this group approximately 15 athletes will be selected to join the top prospects at the national camp in Regina.
Three Concordia athletes have been invited to the Eastern regional – running back Max Thompson and defensive linemen Jean-Pierre Munroe and Aldo Cione.
Punter Clark Green, who played for the Stingers in 2013 and 2014 before transferring home to Windsor, Ont., will attend the Toronto evaluation camp on March 17.
Concordia athletes have been successful coming out of regional camps in the past. In 2013, defensive back/return specialist Kris Robertson was selected to move on to the national combine and was then drafted by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. In 2014, linebacker Travis Bent also moved from the Montreal evaluations to the main camp to being drafted by the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
