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There remain times, B.J. Cunningham has admitted, where he still wonders what he’s doing up here. After putting up such strong numbers at Michigan State, he wonders why he isn’t in the NFL.

“I do think about it a lot, but every other day now. It used to be every day,” the Alouettes’ talented receiver admitted after Wednesday’s practice at Olympic Stadium. “Politics are part of the game, It hasn’t only happened to me.

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“But in the Canadian Football League, you come up, show what you can do and establish yourself, which is what I’m trying to do. If I stay healthy, that won’t happen to me no more.”

Cunningham, 28, and now in his third season with Montreal, was a sixth-round (183rd overall) draft choice of the Miami Dolphins in 2012, after he concluded his college career as the Spartans’ all-time leader in receptions (218), receiving yards (3,086) and finished second in career touchdown receptions (25).