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It’s not a given Dedmon will have a roster spot for the Redblacks going into the Canadian Football League regular season. There’s competition for jobs as receiver and as kick returner.

“I’m doing what I can do, balling the best I can, trying to take advantage of the opportunity and let the people with the numbers handle the numbers,” Dedmon said. “When the ball’s in my hands, I just try to do the best I can, my mentality is to get it into the end zone.”

Obviously, there were a lot of contributors on his touchdown run nearly the length of the field.

“My teammates made every block I needed,” Dedmon said. “They parted the sea for me and I just ran through. The coaches tell me I have to make one guy miss … and I made the guy miss the tackle and that was it.”

Said October: “I joked with him, I said, ‘My daughter could have run through that.’ It takes the other 11 guys blocking hard. From my experience, when you have a guy back there that can do those types of things, it energizes the other players. As long as he continues to stay humble and understand he can’t do it all by himself, he potentially could have a good career in the CFL. But we’re still in training camp mode and Ryan Lankford’s also having a good camp.

“We’ll see how things unfold, but does he have the ability to play in this league? I think he does. You think about guys like Keith Stokes, Pinball (Clemons), Bashir Levingston … it’s a knack those returners had. (Dedmon) possesses that. Can he continue to do it day in and day out? That’s the question. You’re only as good as your last game.”