Laurier Golden Hawks men’s football players Kwaku Boateng and Nakas Onyeka have both been ranked top 20 Canadian prospects for the 2017 CFL Draft.

The league’s Scouting Bureau announced its second rankings of the year on Thursday.

Defensive end, Boateng came in at number six on the list, dropping four spots from the September rankings, while linebacker Onyeka came in at number 18 down two spots from the fall rankings.

Both Onyeka and Boateng are coming off monster years for the Laurier Golden Hawks men’s football club.

Not only have they been enshrined as 2016 Yates Cup champions, both of them were essential to the OUA championship on the defensive side of the ball.

Boateng was named a U Sports Second Team All-Canadian for the second consecutive year. He also reached career highs in four different categories.

He powered his way to career highs in tackles (22), sacks (6.5), knockdowns (6), and forced fumbles (4). With those 6.5 recorded sacks, Boateng is now the sole leader of first place all-time at Laurier for career sacks with 20.5.

Onyeka was a defensive stud as well during the 2016 campaign.

Onyeka was named a U Sports First Team All-Canadian and finished the year as a finalist for the President’s Award as top defensive player in the country.

He finished second in the country in solo tackles with 51 and tackles for a loss with 15. He was ranked fifth in the country in total tackles with 59.5 and now sits third on the Golden Hawks all-time career tackles list with 155.

The only other team to have two players ranked on the second top 20 CFL prospects list is the Vanier Cup Champions Laval Rouge et Or.

According to CFL.ca, 19 out of 20 players from last season’s December’s CFL Scouting Bureau rankings were selected in the 2016 CFL Draft including six of eight first round draft selections.

The final rankings will be released in April 2017.

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