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Opportunity had knocked with impeccable timing for the runner who who hadn’t been certain he’d be selected in the 2015 draft at all, but whose contract was about to expire.

Lafrance said Thursday he feared it might have felt a little weird to drop in at the Redblacks’ offices as a member of another CFL organization, but it hadn’t.

“It has been two amazing years,” said Lafrance, who also dressed for the Redblacks’ unsuccessful CFL championship game appearance against the Edmonton

Eskimos in Winnipeg in November 2015. “Back to back Grey Cups, that’s definitely beating the odds.”

Perhaps the only downside to the recent turns in Lafrance’s career path has been a smidgen of angst for his Winnipeg-based support group, whose members almost certainly would have preferred his new CFL jersey colours to be blue and gold rather than green and white.

“It’s going to be unfortunate for a couple of those people who are Bomber fans,” Lafrance said. “They be cheering for me for sure, even if they aren’t cheering for Saskatchewan.”

The Roughriders play host to the Blue Bombers in each team’s first preseason game of the new season on June 10, and they’ll meet again in the first regular-season matchup at Regina’s new Mosaic Stadium on Canada Day.