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Tevaughn Campbell’s rugby sevens career may get a quicker start than expected.

TheSaskatchewan Roughriders speedster was only supposed to be on the tour of Hong Kong and Singapore for development purposes but has been forced into consideration after an injury to Pat Kay dropped him out of consideration.

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Now, Campbell is listed as Canada’s 13th man, in essence the emergency injury replacement.

That means the odds of him actually stepping on the field are still quite long. One of the starting dozen players selected by Damian McGrath would have to come up injured, allowing for Campbell to be added to the playing roster — and then of course Canadian coach Damian McGrath would actually have to put him on the field.

Given Canada’s opponents are Kenya (5:18 a.m. PT Friday), France (10:34 p.m. PT Friday) and South Africa (2:58 a.m. PT Saturday), it’s hard to see a scenario where Campbell, who has never played rugby before and so is facing a steep curve on the rules, let alone the timing, the running angles, the nuances what-have-you, takes the field.