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And for good reason, considering the Eskimos put Week 1 in the bag as the only team in the West Division that hasn’t surrendered a sack.

“Trevor was great about coming in, he really made himself known to all the guys, he showed up to a couple off-season workouts. In training camp, he was a great guy, sat with everybody at lunch and dinner,” said veteran right guard Matt O’Donnell. “It’s just the thing of learning every different guy’s cadence. Every QB’s got a subtle tone difference of his, maybe a stutter or a flow or something quite different.

“But once you get locked in on game day, you’ve just got to be there 100 per cent.”

Which is something the Eskimos showed with 607 yards of net offence in their first outing, including 154 yards on the ground.

It was a big night for the big boys up front, to say the least.

“It wasn’t perfect. We, in quotation marks, got stopped on third down. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge,” O’Donnell said. “We had a couple turnovers, we had to clean that up. We’ve got to make sure we keep ourselves out of the penalty category.”

And it goes without saying they need to continue to keep Harris upright, which, as it turns out, is a different sort of challenge with a more traditional drop-back passer as opposed to the scrambly type they used to protect.

“Well, it will be a lot easier to keep him clean, I can tell you that,” O’Donnell said. “If he’s staying inside the pocket and the offensive line’s doing their job and receivers and running backs doing their job, we can keep him as clean as possible and keep that white jersey white and green jersey green.”

In and out: SLB Don Unamba has been placed on the six-game injured list after going down at the half of last week’s game. He is joined by CB Anthony Orange, who was injured in practice early this week. That moves Josh Johnson over to CB while Tyquwan Glass will start in his place at DHB and 23-year-old Fayetteville State product and former Winnipeg Blue Bombers DB Brian Walker comes in off the practice squad to start in Unamba’s place. KR Jordan Robinson moves to the practice squad, while Martese Jackson will return kicks.

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