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The Edmonton Eskimos are shaking up their Canadian-American ratio for the 2017 Canadian Football League season.

On Monday, the club released defensive tackle Eddie Steele, who was the last starting vestige along the defensive line with a Canadian passport, after Don Oramasionwu hit the free-agent market and joined the Montreal Alouettes earlier this month.

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Together, the duo rotated in along a defensive line that featured the likes of Odell Willis, Marcus Howard, Phillip Hunt and Almondo Sewell — all Americans.

And it looks like the Green and Gold’s D-line has become fully red, while and blue, as the Eskimos also announced Monday the signing of American interior lineman Euclid Cummings.

A free agent who spent last season with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the six-foot-three, 298-pound Georgia Tech product worked with current Eskimos defensive line coach Casey Creehan two seasons ago with the Toronto Argonauts, with whom he earned 24 tackles and eight sacks.