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Adam Zaruba’s dream isn’t dead.

With the NFL regular season coming to an end this past weekend, the Philadelphia Eagles, who Zaruba spent training camp with last summer, announced this week they’d signed the North Vancouver tight end to a futures contract, essentially saying they wanted another look.

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Zaruba, 6-5 and more than 250 pounds, impressed in his training camp stint — his first football exposure in more than half a decade.

But he was still deemed too raw by coaches and while some thought he might have a chance to stick to the NFL squad’s practice roster, he was cut when NFL teams had to confirm their 53-man playing rosters at the beginning of September.

“It’s been a long couple months back in Vancouver but it’s been good just keeping ready and waiting for a call,” Zaruba said Thursday. Back in Vancouver, he’d travelled to Philadelphia earlier this week to meet with the Eagles.

While training in Vancouver, hoping he would get another NFL call, he received a couple invitations from Rugby Canada, both to return to his 7s career under coach Damian McGrath as well as the chance to give XVs a go, but he decided to keep both in his back pocket and remain focused on his pro football dream.