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We’d like to suggest there hasn’t been this much anticipation around an Alouettes’ quarterback in what seems like an eternity — except it wasn’t that long ago that Troy Smith signed with Montreal.

Almost as quickly, he crashed and burned his way off the Als and out of the Canadian Football League.

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Nobody is ready to anoint the Als’ Vernon Adams as the next superstar quarterback in the CFL — especially after just one game — but executives around the league are watching, taking notes and predicting great things in the future of the 23-year-old.

On the other hand, most people around the CFL agree general manager Jim Popp overpaid greatly when he relinquished a first-round draft choice in 2017 to British Columbia to secure the player’s rights. The Lions didn’t appear in any hurry to sign the 5-foot-11, 200-pounder — a guy who failed to get drafted in the NFL despite producing impressive statistics at both Eastern Washington and Oregon.