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It’s not every day a third-round NFL draft pick makes his way to the CFL.

So you can imagine how quickly Sam Montgomery’s name jumped out from the list of 54 players the Edmonton Eskimos brought into last week’s mini camp in Florida.

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And you can expect to hear plenty more of it once training camp kicks off on May 29.

An All-American out of LSU, the six-foot-three, 260-pound native of Greenwood, S.C., was taken 95th overall by the Houston Texans in 2013.

His rookie year was cut short, however, when he and former Eskimos defensive end Willie Jefferson were part of a trio of Texans rookies released by the club for violating team rules during a road game against the Kansas City Chieft on Oct. 21.

While the violation officially went unspecified, it is widely held to have involved marijuana. Though, at the time, Montgomery claimed he had simply walked into the room where a cigar was being smoked.

“Well, you know, business is business,” Montgomery told Postmedia in Florida. “All I can say is of my player production, every time that I came out I gave it my all.