Todd Reesing appears to be one step closer to calling Canada home.
After being bypassed in last month’s NFL Draft, Reesing, the former Kansas University quarterback who owns nearly every KU passing record, has been courted by the Saskatchewan Roughriders, of the Canadian Football League, for the past several weeks.
Last Friday, Saskatchewan General Manager Brendan Taman said during a CFL conference call that his club was close to signing a new quarterback and had narrowed its list down from four to two: Ryan Dinwiddie, a former Winnipeg Blue Bombers QB, and Reesing.
“We’re getting through that process, and we should have an announcement early next week,” Taman said on Friday.
Should Reesing, who seems to be wildly popular with the Roughriders’ fan base, be signed, he would become the fourth QB on the team’s roster, joining returning starter Darian Durant and backups Cole Bergquist and Kent Smith. Last month, the Roughriders released former Texas Tech standout Graham Harrell, which made room for Reesing.
Saskatchewan will open preseason play June 13.
KU continues to mine Florida
Despite already having commitments from local running back prospects Dreamius Smith (Wichita) and Darrian Miller (Blue Springs, Mo.), the KU coaching staff has extended a scholarship offer to Torrey Campbell, a running back from Barron Collier High in Naples, Florida.
Although he plays running back in high school, Campbell, 5-foot-11, 180 pounds, likely is being recruited by the KU staff as an athlete. He’s listed as such on his profile on Rivals.com and told Corey Dowlar, of the South Florida Rivals site, USFBullsEYE.com, that he expected to be a cornerback in college.
Campbell also has received offers from Boston College, Duke, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Purdue, South Florida, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
In other news out of Florida, KU recently extended an offer to dual-threat quarterback Jerrard Randall, 6-2, 189, from Chaminade Madonna High in Hollywood, Fla. Randall, the fifth QB from the Class of 2011 to be offered by the Jayhawks, is one of the program’s big-fish prospects. He also has drawn interest from Ohio State, Oregon and Florida.
