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Tiger-Cats kick returner Brandon Banks named CFL’s top special-teams player

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Hamilton Tiger-Cats kick returner Brandon Banks poses for photographs after winning the CFL\'s most outstanding special teams player award during the Canadian Football League awards in Winnipeg on Thursday November 26, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

WINNIPEG – Kick returner Brandon Banks of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats is the CFL’s top special-teams performer.

Banks was honoured at the CFL awards banquet Thursday night, receiving 54-of-75 first-place ballots in voting by the Football Reporters of Canada.

Calgary Stampeders kicker Rene Paredes was the finalist.

Banks had four punt-return TDs, one shy of the league mark. The five-foot-seven 153-pound dynamo was third overall in all-purpose yards (2,073) and punt return yards (930) and became the first CFL player to return a missed convert for a score.

Parades made 41-of-47 field goals (87.2 per cent) and was the CFL’s second-leading scorer with 156 points. He won the award in 2013.

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