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Edmonton Eskimos quarterback Mike Reilly insists he looks for more than just one receiver in times of need this season.

Yet coming off their first CFL bye week, and heading towards an encounter on the road against the Montreal Alouettes on Thursday, Reilly seems to have found a preferred target in D’haquille Williams.

Williams has a team-high 31 catches for 556 yards and three touchdowns through five games this season to lead a talented Eskimos receiving corps, which also includes Derel Walker, Kenny Stafford and Nathaniel Behar.

“First, it’s just because of his talent — that’s always the biggest part of it with wide receivers — when they have talent, they have success,” Reilly said of Williams. “It is also in large part because of the team. The O-line is doing a great job of blocking, giving me time to find the open guy.

“But the reason those guys have success is because they work hard at their craft, they work on their routes, during, before, and after practice trying to figure out all the little details of how to get better. Duke is a prime example of that, he’s a big, strong receiver that has a great catch radius, but he’s gotten faster this year than he was last year and he’s gotten better at the details of running his routes.”