When Cory Fajardo saw his little brother Cody go tumbling over the Bombers bench at Mosaic Stadium a couple weeks ago and then pop right back up, he knew his little brother was no worse for wear.



“When my brother was growing up and he was playing quarterback, one time he got hit really hard when he was about 10 years old,” says Cory, who is 16 months older than the Roughriders No. 1 quarterback. “He got up kind of slow, and my father said to him: ‘Don’t ever show the other team that they’ve injured you. You get up, and you walk off the field, and then you assess the situation afterwards.’



“So I know that if my brother gets hit and he doesn’t get up off the floor, he’s not putting on a show. He’s really hurt. So when I see him hit something like a bench and pop right up, I’m like: He’s fine.”



One of the reasons why Cody Fajardo seems to possess a stronger-than-normal toughness...