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Remember all this. It might be important one day.

“I’ve been waiting for a chance and I’m just exploiting an opportunity that was presented to me,” Lloyd said on Monday, back at the Lions’ camp in Kamloops. “I feel terrible that Cody was hurt. He’s been nothing but good for me. But I was the next man up and I did what I was supposed to do.”

And opened some eyes along the way.

“You put the guys in the game and you see it’s either too big for them or they can play at that speed,” said Lions GM Ed Hervey, whose pursuit of Lloyd wasn’t as haphazard as it sounds. “The moment was there. He took it. It looked like he belonged.”

For one week. Now, the Lions are anxious to see if Lloyd belongs, period.

Photo by B.C. Lions / PNG

CFL pre-season games, by definition, are exercises in tedium but they occasionally provide a moment for a long-shot and that was Lloyd on Friday night. With the Lions trailing 23-11, the 25-year-old threw touchdown passes on three consecutive series in the third quarter — two of the majors were set up by turnovers — to give the Lions the lead.

Early in the fourth quarter, Lloyd also faced a second-and-23 near midfield. Instead of forcing the ball downfield, he threw an eight-yard completion to Samajie Grant which led to a Lions’ field goal. That play impressed head coach Wally Buono as much as the three touchdown passes.

“That field goal was big for us,” said Buono. “I thought he showed tremendous poise.”

Actually, he’s shown a lot of things in his eventful career. It’s just that a sense of timing hasn’t been one of them.