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If football bloodlines are important, the B.C. Lions have a prospect with a pedigree in defensive back Tevin McDonald, one of three signings announced Thursday by the CFL club.

A redshirt freshman starter at UCLA before transferring to Eastern Washington, McDonald is the younger brother of Los Angeles Rams starting strong safety T. J. McDonald and son of Tim McDonald, a six-time Pro Bowler and Super Bowl champion (49ers).

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“He has great instincts, ball skills and his football IQ is off the charts,” Ryan Rigmaiden, the Lions director of U.S. Scouting, says of Tevin McDonald.

“You can absolutely see that. He was probably talking coverages with his dad in kindergarten.”

McDonald, 24, has been on the Lions’ negotiation list since his time at Eastern Washington (Big Sky first team, 2014) and later on the practice roster of the Oakland Raiders (2015).

Former Washington Huskies/San Jose Spartans defensive back Cleveland Wallace and Robert Brown, a DB who attended a Lions’ tryout last year in Washington, D.C., will also attend a three-day mini-camp at the Leos’ Surrey training facility in late April.

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