Good CFL teams stockpile talent like wise investors who save cash for a rainy day.

So when it rains, like it’s done both figuratively and literally for the Toronto Argonauts, they’ve got some insurance.

The Argos keep losing star receivers to injuries, but each time a Chad Owens, Andre Durie or Anthony Coombs goes down, the team reaches into its reserves to plug the dike.

The latest loss is Kevin Elliott, who is doubtful for the Blue Bombers game in Winnipeg on Friday.

The injury-racked Argos had a walkthrough on Monday at Downsview Park before a cloudburst sent the players scattering.

Head coach Scott Milanovich, in going with a film session and light field work, wanted to rest sore muscles following the team’s 30-26 victory over the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Saturday.

He and the players call this “Day Zero.”

Owens did not participate on Monday because his injured ankle is still swollen.

With Elliott doubtful due to a rib injury, Kenny Shaw is the next receiver in line. Pretty soon the well may run dry.

Against the Riders, the Argos reached into their reserves to find a gem in Diontae Spencer, who in his first CFL start made five catches for a game-high 94 yards, including a 52-yard go-ahead touchdown that showcased his breakaway speed.

“Diontae having that much success didn’t surprise any of us,” quarterback Trevor Harris said Monday. “He flashed early in camp.”

Spencer, who signed with the Argos last December after he had been released by the NFL’s St. Louis Rams, was a football and track star at McNeese State.

In the off-season, he trains with close friend Odell Beckham Jr. of the New York Giants.

“He wanted to see the touchdown, so I sent him the video after the game,” Spencer said. “He was excited for me.”

Credit Argos general manager Jim Barker for mining the North American market for receivers as talented as Spencer, Elliott, Vidal Hazelton and Tori Gurley.

Those four have accounted for 11 of the team’s 15 receiving touchdowns this season.

Barker, in turn, credits receivers coach Jaime Elizondo for the preparation work to instill the right mind-set in the players.

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Elizondo saw early in training camp that these receivers were special.

“Those guys would be at breakfast and going over the script,” Elizondo said. “They’d be huddled together and talking about the plays. It was the first time any of us had ever seen this from a receiver group. You see it at night or the night before, but that was a good early sign that they were hungry.”

Harris, whose preparation is legendary, has also been a key cog in ensuring the rookie receivers have no blown assignments come game time.

Milanovich had the idea of having Harris record each upcoming play call onto his iPhone with game-like cadences. Harris then sends the recordings to each receiver so they can listen at home as if they were in the huddle and rehearse.

It’s been working.

It’s still too early to say if Spencer can sustain this level of play. By all accounts, the first-game magic won’t go to his head.

“I think he’s very level-headed,” receivers coach Elizondo said. “I think he knows that this is a what-have-you-done-for-me lately business.”

Elizondo doesn’t believe Spencer is a flash in the pan, and that belief stems from something he heard from the 23-year-old receiver on Monday.

Spencer told him that the game on Saturday really slowed down for him.

“That was great to hear,” Elizondo said, “because usually for a rookie in his first pro game, everything is moving really fast.”