Hamilton Tiger-Cats open training camp without receiver-returner Chris Williams
HAMILTON – The Hamilton Tiger-Cats opened training camp Sunday without Chris Williams.
The CFL’s top special-teams player last season was absent when the Ticats took to the field at McMaster University for workouts.
As a result, the Ticats put Williams on the suspended list.
Williams scored a club-record 17 touchdowns last season — including six on returns — and was named the league’s outstanding special-teams player.
Williams is embroiled in a bitter dispute with the Ticats regarding the final year of his CFL contract and has gone to arbitration in order to be released from the deal so he could try out south of the border.
An arbitrator has yet to rule on the issue although there’s talk Williams is unlikely to report to Hamilton even if he loses his case and could sit out the entire season and pursue NFL offers in 2014.
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