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The 2015 Calgary Stampeders’ training camp synopsis, as per usual, details some milestones to watch in the upcoming CFL season.

Those, as they pertain to one Jon Cornish, include: 13 yards to surpass Willie Burden for fifth place on the team’s all-time rushing list; 174 to pass Lovell Coleman for fourth; and 773 to overtake Earl Lunsford for third.

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For the league’s premier running back, there isn’t anything particularly extraordinary about that.

“It’s 700 yards,” shrugged Cornish. “I would have to have a pretty terrible season to not get there. Those aren’t things I worry about. I’ve never really cared about cumulative rushing yards. Congratulations, you were able to stay in the game. Kelvin Anderson and Joffrey Reynolds were both those guys who would just grind out yards and were able to play week in and week out.

“I consider myself a little bit more of a finesse guy. It’s not a big deal for me to go long-term. When you get to this point, you start to think about legacy, what am I going to leave the game with. There’s those, but there’s more important things I want to leave the game with.”