The most important piece of our jigsaw puzzle was gone, leaving our depth chart incomplete.<\/p>\n
This summer there are 35 Canadians set to attend NFL training camps, and two of them happen to be quarterbacks \u2013 Wilfrid Laurier\u2019s Taylor Elgersma of London, Ont. and Indiana University\u2019s Kurtis Rourke of Oakville, Ont.<\/p>\n
And while seeing two quarterbacks born and raised in Canada arrive in the NFL in one season may be more blip than trend, that doesn\u2019t diminish the significance of their arrival.<\/p>\n
It highlights the fact that players developed here can reach any position on an NFL field.<\/p>\n
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Canada’s NFL All-22 Starting Offence Naylor Yourk<\/p>\n
Gone are the days when Canadians were mostly offensive linemen or special teams players.<\/p>\n
This NFL season will bring us Cincinnati\u2019s Chase Brown<\/a> and Carolina\u2019s Chuba Hubbard<\/a> as star running backs for their respective clubs.<\/p>\n It will bring us the Buffalo Bills<\/a> counting on Brampton, Ont.\u2019s Josh Palmer at receiver and Oakville\u2019s Michael Hoecht<\/a> along their defensive line to fulfill their Super Bowl quest.<\/p>\n It will feature Tennessee Titans<\/a> rookie receiver Elic Ayomanor of Medicine Hat, Alta., one of two receivers from his province at training camp, along with Ajou Ajou of Brooks, who is with the Colts.<\/p>\n It will feature a pair of pass-catching tight ends in the New York Giants<\/a>\u2019 Theo Johnson of Windsor, Ont. and Cincinnati\u2019s Tanner McLachlan of Lethbridge, Alta.<\/p>\n And it will feature Canadians patrolling the defensive secondary \u2013 in Miami with Jevon Holland<\/a>, in Los Angeles with both Benjamin St-Juste<\/a> and Deane Leonard<\/a> suiting up for the Chargers, and in Philadelphia, where Eagles safety Sydney Brown<\/a> became Canada\u2019s most recent Super Bowl winner last season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n With Canada broadly represented for the 2025 NFL season, our depth chart is complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year we launched TSN\u2019s NFL Team Canada for the very first time, an all-22 depth chart completely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-13209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/canada-s-nfl-all-22-starting-defence-1-2336348-1752781290696.jpeg\")
Canada’s NFL All-22 Starting Defence Naylor Yourk<\/p>\n