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TORONTO — Zackary Williams has a couple of intangibles CFL teams are looking for — a lunchpail mentality and plenty of want.

When the University of Manitoba offensive lineman didn’t get the school marks he needed to maintain his scholarship back in 2015, he needed to find another way to pay his way. So he took on jobs — four of them — to stay in school and keep playing football, something he’s pretty good at.

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Participating in the CFL Combine on the weekend, the 6-foot-5, 315-pounder has made plenty of sacrifices to keep his football dream alive. How about this for an off-season schedule: 10:45 p.m. to 7:15 a.m. he worked a manual labour job at Melet Plastics, he’d go from there to Sobey’s (where he worked in the bakery) and work until 2:30, train for a couple of hours, get home at 5:30 and sleep until 9 p.m., then begin the cycle all over again. Throw in a part-time job at Visions Electronics and a job working security on weekends. It worked out to 70-80 hours a week on the job, sometimes more.