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Eli Ankou’s fate in next month’s Canadian Football League draft will likely be determined in two weeks … during the National Football League draft.

Ranked the second-best prospect by the CFL Scouting Bureau, Ottawa’s Ankou, a defensive end out of UCLA, has been visiting with NFL teams and has been projected to be a potential mid-round NFL pick.

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Ankou appeared in 10 games last year for the Bruins. For his four-year U.S. college football career, he had 87 tackles, four of them for a loss. He also had 1.5 sacks, a fumble recovery and a blocked kick.

Carleton University receiver Nate Behar moved up in the CFL prospect rankings to ninth from a December ranking of 12th.

Montreal’s Justin Senior, an offensive lineman at Mississippi State, was again the top-rated prospect. Manitoba Bisons offensive lineman Geoff Gray was rated third.

If Ankou, Senior and Gray get NFL opportunities, that will likely push them down in the CFL draft.

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