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Armanti Edwards is hoping his new team will let him play his old position.

Edwards was a quarterback in college at Appalachian State, but was moved to receiver by the NFL’s Carolina Panthers. He hasn’t been a full-time quarterback since 2009.

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On Thursday, Edwards confirmed the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders — who announced his signing Wednesday — are going to give him a shot under centre.

“I did a few Wildcat things in the NFL, but it has been a while since I was a full-time quarterback,” Edwards, 27, said from Charlotte, N.C.

“Switching and doing different stuff is always a task, but I feel it’ll be easier switching back to quarterback than when I had to switch to receiver. I played quarterback all my life, so that’s still kind of second nature to me compared to switching to a position I had no clue about.”

That said, Edwards is looking to switch to quarterback in a league with which he is unfamiliar.