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This season, Behar returns to Ottawa having caught 17 passes for 153 yards with a touchdown as a receiver.

“Hopefully, the reception is good,” Behar said. “Hopefully, there are not too many people booing. Hopefully, there are not too many U of Ottawa people yipping at me.

“Sadly the team (Carleton) is away on a road trip, so I won’t get to see the coaches, but I’ll get to see some of the guys, especially the guys that graduated with me, a lot of those guys are still in town. I’m going to have dinner with them the night before and I’ll get to hang out them and I know some people that I used to work with are going to be there on a little section together, so that will be fun to see them.”

In his four years at Carleton, Behar caught 178 passes for 2,577 yards and 21 touchdowns in 30 games. His role with the Eskimos has been expanding this season and his versatility has become an asset on offence.

“The first year that he was here, he missed most of training camp and so when he came in, he was just kind of a special-teams guy that really wasn’t asked to do much offensively,” said Eskimos quarterback Mike Reilly. “He really needed to learn the offence and kind of get his feet wet. But over the course of this past off-season, training camp, mini camp in Vegas, all those types of things, he’s really shown what he’s capable of.

“We always knew he was extremely smart, he picked the playbook up really quick, but he’s a guy that’s been really dependable for us, because he can play all the positions and he’s not a weak link when he’s out there doing it.”