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EDMONTON — If the Ottawa Redblacks win the Grey Cup on Sunday and they make a movie about it, linebacker Kyries Hebert already has a title picked out.

It comes from an article he saw this summer.

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“‘The Last Renegade,”‘ he said with a smile Friday. “I looked at that and that’s pretty cool. That would be a great title for a movie.”

It’s fitting for Hebert, the last remaining Ottawa Renegade in the CFL after that team folded in 2006.

The players were dispersed to other teams and Hebert moved on to Winnipeg, then Cincinnati, then Hamilton, then Montreal.

Now back in Ottawa, he credits the city for saving his football career.

After a standout stint as a defensive back with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns, Hebert tried out for the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings in 2002, but was cut.

He caught on with the Houston Texans for the remainder of that season, but was injured and released.

“I was unemployed in 2003 coming off an injury … and didn’t know when my next football snap was going to be,” he recalled.