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OTTAWA — While most of his teammates will be relaxing during the bye week, SirVincent Rogers will be busier than ever.

The Ottawa Redblacks offensive lineman has returned home to Houston, where he will be a welcome sight for his wife, Rachel, and four young children.

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Rogers has seen his family just once, the Redblacks’ last bye week in August, since he left Houston in May to attend training camp.

Coming off a 28-15 win over the Edmonton Eskimos and sitting first in the East, the Redblacks (8-5) likely are playoff bound — meaning Rogers won’t see his family again until at least mid-November.

While leaving home has become a way of life for the six-year CFL veteran, he admits it hasn’t gotten any easier.

“That’s the part that most players don’t really like to elaborate on or talk about,” the 32-year-old Rogers said. “That’s the difficulty and struggle that we deal with as American players coming here and spending half the year here pursuing a game we love and a job. That’s the part you try to suppress and you try to deal with outside of football. When you’re here at work you try to lock in and focus on that, but it makes it extremely tough outside of work to not have your kids or your wife physically present.”