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There is also the chance, though it still seems unlikely, the team gets an early return from Rogers, who missed the latter part of the season with an ankle injury that was supposed to sideline him for the remainder of 2016.

“It’s healing well,” Rogers said. “But if we played Friday, I couldn’t play. I’d say I’m between 50 and 60%. I’ve played games at probably 70% healthy, maybe a bit less, in this league. If I can get to the point where I can manage it, not be thinking about it and functioning and doing the things I normally do … then I’m going to go. I’m going to try and get to that point.”

“We’ll revisit it early next week,” Redblacks GM Marcel Desjardins said. “It’s obviously something he wants to do, but we have to be smart about it, too. Would we rather have SV in there? Absolutely.”

Many of the players who were given the night off Friday — including kicker Chris Milo — were back on the field on Tuesday.

“We had a week to rest, I got some treatment and I’m good to go now,” defensive end Zack Evans said. “It’s a chance to knock the rust off, get as healthy as you can get and then it’s, ‘Let’s go.’

“It’s nice to know you’ve already booked your ticket to the final. I’ve seen teams in this situation do well and others do poorly. I think we’re a team which will do well off it and it’ll help us in the long run.”

BROCK A FIT WITH ALS?

After parting ways with Jim Popp on Monday, the Montreal Alouettes have an opening at GM. Would Redblacks assistant GM Brock Sunderland, who got his CFL start in Montreal, be a good fit? Desjardins said he hasn’t been contacted by anyone asking permission to speak to Sunderland, who interviewed for the Saskatchewan GM job (which went to Chris Jones) last December.