{"id":566474,"date":"2026-03-28T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566474\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T11:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:46:34","slug":"3-standout-performers-that-dominated-cfl-combine-testing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566474\/","title":{"rendered":"3 standout performers that dominated CFL Combine testing day"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDMONTON \u2014 With the testing portion of the CFL Combine presented by Anytime Fitness Canada completed, CFL.ca\u2019s CFL Combine and CFL Draft expert Marshall Ferguson was impressed with what he saw.<\/p>\n

A receiver, a quarterback and an offensive lineman all stood out amongst the group.<\/p>\n

Here are Marsh\u2019s 3 Stars from the testing day of CFL Combine week.<\/p>\n

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JESULAYOMI OJUTALAYO | RECEIVER | WILFIRD LAURIER
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Jesulayomi Ojutalayo ran the fifth-fastest 40-yard dash on Friday with a 4.58-second time (CFL.ca)<\/p>\n

Wilfird Laurier receiver Jesulayomi Ojutalayo had an impressive day on Friday, appearing in the top five in four of the six total drills during the first day of the CFL Combine.<\/p>\n

He leapt 38 inches in the vertical jump, tying defensive back Patrick Cumberbatch for first place in the drill. The pass-catcher also ran the fifth-fastest 40-yard dash of the day, clocking in at 4.58 seconds, was tied for fourth in the 3-cone drill (6.97 seconds) and jumped the fifth-best broad jump (10\u2032 7 7\/8\u2033).<\/p>\n

\u201cI just love the way that he carries himself because he looks like so many highly drafted CFL players of the past at his position,\u201d said Ferguson, following the testing. \u201cHe\u2019s strong, he knows how to dominate a drill, he\u2019s quick in and out of cuts. He\u2019s this wonderful balance of speed and power. I think he\u2019s a really intriguing package.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen the question becomes, what does he look like on the field? Actually getting reps here (at the CFL Combine), because there\u2019s a lot of coaches who wish they would have seen a lot more of him at Laurier.\u201d<\/p>\n

ELOA LATENDRESSE REGIMBALD | QUARTERBACK | MCGILL
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Eloa Latendresse Regimbald\u2019s broad jump was the 10th best all-time in CFL Combine history (Paul Swanson\/CFL.ca)<\/p>\n

Eloa Latendresse Regimbald made Ferguson do a double take on Friday after the McGill quarterback secured the second-best broad jump of the day (10\u2032 10 1\/2\u2033). That broad jump moved Latendresse Regimbald into 10th all-time in CFL Combine history.<\/a> The lower body strength wasn\u2019t a surprise to Ferguson, however, after seeing what the six-foot-three, 213-pounder did in his U SPORTS career.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a quarterback to be top five in rushing in U SPORTS is obviously not the norm, but he is not a normal athlete,\u201d said Ferguson.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince he came in from CEGEP, everybody knew he was an athletic monster that could basically play anywhere from running back to receiver to quarterback to linebacker to defensive back to returner. He\u2019s kind of one of those special body types and I think that showed in his broad jump today, which was 10 foot, 10 inches.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen he did 10 reps on the bench, which is the same as Brad Sinopoli and Andrew Buckley,\u201d Ferguson continued, comparing Latendresse Regimbald to a pair of former CFL stars. \u201cHe\u2019s a unique body type. He\u2019s a great athlete. He\u2019s here as a quarterback and I hope he gets every opportunity to prove that he can perform as a quarterback. But I\u2019d also love to see him test his comfort level at a couple of different positions, because I think teams will start daydreaming about what he could do for them in the draft.\u201d<\/p>\n

NIKLAS HENNING | OFFENSIVE LINEMAN | QUEEN\u2019S
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Niklas Henning was one of CFL.ca\u2019s Marshall Ferguson\u2019s top three participants from Friday\u2019s testing session (Paul Swanson\/CFL.ca)<\/p>\n

Niklas Henning looked every bit like a CFL veteran to Ferguson, even though he\u2019s yet to be drafted to a CFL team. The Queen\u2019s offensive lineman backed that up with an impressive showing in the testing, proving to evaluators that he\u2019s worthy of joining their team come draft night on April 28.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something about an offensive lineman, for me, that I can watch them during testing in the on field drills at the combine and take away the combine uniform and put on a CFL uniform (in my eyes). Niklas Henning just looks like a 10-year pro to me immediately,\u201d admitted Ferguson.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can imagine in any uniform across the CFL 10 years from now, and going, \u2018oh yeah, he\u2019s been great for a decade.\u2019 He gives off that type of professionalism. He got 27 reps on the bench and was the best offensive lineman in the broad jump as well. He has upper body explosion with the bench press and lower body explosion with the broad jump. He carries himself well, has excellent movement skills for his former position. I think he has a bright future ahead of him and this is just the start.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 With the testing portion of the CFL Combine presented by Anytime Fitness Canada completed, CFL.ca\u2019s CFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-566474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566474","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=566474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}