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Winnipeg Blue Bombers name rookie Chris Streveler as their starter

Winnipeg Blue Bombers name rookie Chris Streveler as their starter | iNFOnews.ca
Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarterback Chris Streveler passes against the B.C. Lions during the second half of a pre-season CFL football game in Vancouver, on Friday, June 8, 2018. Rookie Streveler will start at quarterback for Winnipeg on Thursday night when the Blue Bombers kick off the 2018 CFL season against the Edmonton Eskimos. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck A

WINNIPEG – Rookie Chris Streveler will start at quarterback for Winnipeg on Thursday night when the Blue Bombers kick off the 2018 CFL season against the Edmonton Eskimos.

Streveler replaces incumbent Matt Nichols, who suffered a knee injury last week and is out four-to-six weeks.

Winnipeg head coachMike O’Shea named Streveler, 23, the club’s starter Monday.

Streveler played collegiately last year at the University of South Dakota.

He’ll become the first rookie to start in the CFL a year after playing in the college ranks since 1994, when Anthony Calvillo did it with the Las Vegas Posse.

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