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“I’m looking forward to everything.”

Whitehead often says he likes to “flip the field,” but he may have flipped the script in his first CFL training camp.

Coming out of the Bombers’ free-agent camp in Florida in April as a contender for the kick-return position, the 27-year-old former NFLer might have made the team as a receiver who can also return kicks.

“I hope I did,” he said. “I definitely feel like I’m in the talks for being a receiver as well here.”

While the big play against the Riders may have sealed the deal, Whitehead is just as proud of how consistent he was through camp and how hard he’s worked to learn the play book.

“I knew my stuff,” he said. “I was put in different positions, and I knew my job, I knew what to do. When it was time to make the play, I made my plays.”

It seems he’s light-years from the player who walked into that free-agent camp, saw all the receivers in motion and wondered “what in the world is going on?”

“It’s crazy how fast it’s moving,” he said. “I’m going in the right direction. And once I do learn it… when I get it down to a tee, it’s going to be poetry in motion.”

Whitehead says he’ll take whatever role the Bombers give him, whether that means being a returner who fills in at receiver, or vice-versa.

While his inclusion in the season-opening roster is no surprise, Saturday’s axe did fall in a few unexpected places.

Veteran third-string quarterback and special-teamer Bryan Bennett was among the casualties, as the Bombers went with 23-year-old Sean McGuire as their No. 3 instead, obviously seeing more upside in him than the 27-year-old Bennett.