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The Saskatchewan Roughriders’ latest addition has been out of professional football all year — which means that he is fitting right into the, er, offence.

With the CFL playoffs looming, the Roughriders announced Saturday that they had signed 34-year-old quarterback Drew Tate, who last played a down with the 2017 Ottawa Redblacks.

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Tate, who was released by Ottawa in February, subsequently joined the Coastal Carolina University Chanticleers as a defensive assistant.

His sudden, unexpected and as-yet-unexplained return to the CFL has prompted some questions:

(1) What is a Chanticleer?

(2) Why did the Roughriders sign Tate?

(3) What, if anything, does Tate’s arrival say about the status of Saskatchewan starting quarterback Zach Collaros?

And now, the answers:

(1) A rooster.

(2) Tate is an insurance policy.

(3) Not very much, it appears.

On Saturday, shortly after Tate was signed, the ever-popular CFL source indicated to this scribbler that Collaros is apparently fine.