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He went from a football fishbowl to a market where three-down football barely registers when it comes to coverage, visibility and name recognition.

But that’s life for any player on the Argonauts and it is not restricted to someone as accomplished as Derel Walker.

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What Argos fans — the authentic passionate variety — have shown throughout the many years is their loyalty and patience, in good times and bad.

Walker, signed by the Boatmen as a free agent this past off-season, is one those rare game-changers in the CFL who doesn’t line up behind centre, a deep receiving threat whose presence forces opposing defences to account for him in whatever scheme gets dialed up.

In many ways, Walker finds himself at Argos camp in that phase of getting his feet wet, learning a new system with new players in a new environment.

At least he has James Franklin to provide support, the two first meeting when the quarterback and receiver were with the Edmonton Eskimos a few years ago.