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Now that the Grey Cup hangover is subsiding, the long-overdue parade is over and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are getting ready to go their separate ways, there is plenty of business at hand for the team brass.

A total of 23 players on the league champions, including all three quarterbacks who started games this season, can become free agents in February.

Late-season saviour Zach Collaros, super-utility backup Chris Streveler and original No. 1 quarterback Matt Nichols all have clouded futures over the next few months.

There’s no chance all three will be back, but it’s possible the Bombers will try to sign two of the three.

They won a Grey Cup using a combination of Collaros and Streveler in the playoffs and Nichols and Streveler during the season and there’s no reason to think they couldn’t be contenders again with a similar plan for next year.

It seems unlikely a team would look at Streveler as a No. 1 option at this point, given that he is far more of a runner than a thrower and has not proven his ability to execute in a passing offence — touchdown pass to Andrew Harris in the Grey Cup aside.