High Schooler Rumoured to Have Signed with Blue Bombers

[ModAdmin]

Not Official but...

https://3downnation.com/2023/04/20/bombers-invite-standout-high-school-receiver-mekhi-tyrell-to-training-camp-as-territorial-exemption/

[gobombersgo]

He basically became Bomber property today as a territorial exempt player.

Recruit Ready   @RecruitReady
HUGE Congrats out to @recruitready Baller and the #1 Receiver in Canada '23 Mekhi Tyrell on signing to attend 2023 Training Camp with the
@cfl @wpgbluebomberscfl !!  Mekhi Tyrell becomes the youngest player in @cfl History (modern era) to attend @cfl training camp!#RRFAM

(link includes a picture of him signing his try-out contract)
https://twitter.com/RecruitReady/status/1649040859956912128

[pjrocksmb]

This is awesome and why the CFL is so awesome.  Community focused.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

Below are some clips of this guy in action, looks like a young Demski before he learned to stop over-juking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue8thpuojNo&ab_channel=KayEhSports

[NewBlue]

Below are some clips of this guy in action, looks like a young Demski before he learned to stop over-juking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue8thpuojNo&ab_channel=KayEhSports

Love it.  Hope he can be the next local star on the team.  Also great that we don't need to rush him in at all this year, let him be around pros and just work on his skills. Make a push this time next year. 
Feels like a cheat code that we get the top ranked WR before the draft, it was a positional need!

[pjrocksmb]

Love it.  Hope he can be the next local star on the team.  Also great that we don't need to rush him in at all this year, let him be around pros and just work on his skills. Make a push this time next year. 
Feels like a cheat code that we get the top ranked WR before the draft, it was a positional need!

Yup low and slow

[TecnoGenius]

Crazy.  Looks good on film.  Good for WFC as it will generate a lot of buzz and press.

Dude is 19 so this must be his final HS year, you'd hope.  He can't go to the states as the article says "academic issues" make a scholarship impossible.  That might limit his Canada U viability too.  He may be on a one-track ride to Junior FB or the CFL.

If he does join WPG he'll have to give up his #10! 

[theaardvark]

Not many "territorial exemptions" get made... AH33 was one...

It will be interesting, if he has the chops to ride with the team on the PR or even AR for the year... does that burn a year off his ELC?

[Sir Blue and Gold]

Don't know now anything about him, but:

You know he's good because he was initially recruited by Saban.

You know there some warning signs because he couldn't go to the NCAA on an athletic scholarship due to academic issues and that bar is very, very low.

[Blue In BC]

Interesting. We don't have great depth for our Canadian receivers, so this is well worth a look in TC. I don't put too much faith in highlight films, especially from HS. That said, he doesn't go down easy, has good size and seems to have good speed. I'd think he will need some polishing but that's to be expected at that level and age.

Good luck to the young guy. I'm not sure how school back east will impede any chance of being added to our PR? If he plans university in Manitoba this could work well.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

Don't know now anything about him, but:

You know he's good because he was initially recruited by Saban.

You know there some warning signs because he couldn't go to the NCAA on an athletic scholarship due to academic issues and that bar is very, very low.

As I understand it he loses his eligibility for US college ball by signing a contract with the Bombers, so JR. ball or direct to the CFL may be his only options.  I could certainly be wrong with this assumption.

[Sir Blue and Gold]

As I understand it he loses his eligibility for US college ball by signing a contract with the Bombers, so JR. ball or direct to the CFL may be his only options.  I could certainly be wrong with this assumption.

I believe so. The article says the NCAA would not let him in so he didn't really have a choice. Seems like an odd situation.

[TecnoGenius]

You know there some warning signs because he couldn't go to the NCAA on an athletic scholarship due to academic issues and that bar is very, very low.

Ya, but AH couldn't do "U" either, in either country.  So I wouldn't get too worried about this kid.  It all worked out ok for AH.

Some people just are not cut out for university: even special "easy" football programs.

[ModAdmin]

Ya, but AH couldn't do "U" either, in either country.  So I wouldn't get too worried about this kid.  It all worked out ok for AH.

Some people just are not cut out for university: even special "easy" football programs.

Sure....but let's not discount the value of experience and playing in the US college football ranks.

[TecnoGenius]

Sure....but let's not discount the value of experience and playing in the US college football ranks.

For sure.  Junior FB -> CFL doesn't have very many success stories, that's for sure.  If we brainstormed we'd probably be hard-pressed to think of a handful.  But there's also something to be said for a superstar youth coming in <20 y.o.; if he sticks he could be a super starter for 10+ years!  It's a long shot, but I'll be optimistic.