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His legs aren’t so much legs as they are tree trunks.

Or perhaps a better description of Blue Bombers defensive tackle Steven Richardson, listed at 5-foot-11 and 298 pounds, is a stump atop two fire hydrants.

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It hasn’t taken long for Richardson to grow on his new teammates in the first week of training camp.

Veteran linebacker Adam Bighill said the 23-year-old has quickly jumped off the page, calling him a “phenomenal player” who’s been making “a ton of plays.”

“It means a lot,” Richardson said on Thursday. “You assume you’re kind of doing good but you don’t know where you are, you don’t know where you stand. So hearing that from a veteran, it feels really good. Especially that guy.”

A late addition to camp, Richardson’s page on the Bombers website is blank: No profile, no mention of when he signed.

So we’ll let him fill in the blanks.

“It’s been definitely a roller coaster,” Richardson said of his last year or so since he left the University of Minnesota. “I got signed as a free agent with the Chargers, and had a rough camp but ended up doing pretty well towards the end and making the practice squad. Then I got released maybe a month after that and then hearing nothing, nothing from NFL teams, AAF teams.