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SirVincent Rogers may be gone from the Edmonton Eskimos lineup for the foreseeable future, but he won’t exactly be forgotten.

Not while the six-foot-four, 319-pound offensive lineman is still making his way around Commonwealth Stadium while rehabbing a surgically repaired left triceps, anyway.

The big man was part of some big plans by the Eskimos.

“And he still will be, there’s no doubt in my mind he’ll be back before the end of the year and I’m excited to have him around for some meetings and everything like that,” said Eskimos assistant head coach Mike Gibson, who also oversees the offensive line. “He’s been a great influence, so we’ll go until he comes back and when he comes back we’ll just pick up from when he got hurt.”

Gibson said the injury the 33-year-old former Canadian Football League most outstanding O-lineman suffered during Wednesday’s two-a-day on-field sessions was pure fluke.

“It could happen at any time,” Gibson said. “In some ways, if it was going to happen it was better to happen now because we’ve still got two weeks in training camp left, and then we’ve got a couple byes.

“All that time’s going to help him, so he’ll be fine.”

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