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Natey Adjei is fine with calling his latest touchdown the defining play of his career.

So long as the term, ‘So far,’ is included.

The 29-year-old veteran of six Canadian Football League seasons scored the Edmonton Eskimos’ longest offensive play of the season in Thursday’s 33-6 win on the road against the B.C. Lions.

The five-foot-11, 193-pound Buffalo product took a screen pass 77 yards to the end zone on a play that covered more than one-third of his 206 receiving yards on the season, which has him sitting fourth on his team.

“It was super fun. Awesome, obviously I’m never going to forget it,” Adjei said, adding Eskimos equipment manager Dwayne Mandrusiak hung onto the touchdown ball. “Hopefully he gives it to me later, but it’s one I won’t forget.”

That’s because that one play alone covered more distance than Adjei had tallied in any single season during his first four years in the league, as he earned his stripes as a reliable special-teams grinder, before posting a career-high 214 yards and a touchdown in his fifth season last year.