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If the next game always is the most important in the career of a professional athlete, we should discover more things about Antonio Pipkin by late Friday.

Pipkin will be the Alouettes’ starting quarterback Friday when they host the Saskatchewan Roughriders at Molson Stadium (7 p.m., TSN, RDS, TSN Radio-690). He’s replacing the injured Vernon Adams, who was concussed last week.

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While the job appears to be Adams’s to lose, Pipkin can at least plant a seed of doubt in the mind of head coach Khari Jones, should he perform well against the Riders.

Pipkin didn’t last week, when he replaced Adams in the third quarter against Ottawa, completing only eight of 17 passes for 57 yards. The Als’ offence generated only a pair of field goals under Pipkin, and was unable to score a touchdown from inside the Ottawa 10-yard line.

Of course, it also marked Pipkin’s first game since June 14, when he sustained an ankle injury at Edmonton. The injury opened the door for Adams, who directed Montreal to three straight victories.