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Rookies are supposed to be seen and not heard.

It’s difficult to apply that adage to Junior Luke because of what the B.C. Lions saw in the defensive tackle before making the 25-year-old Montreal native the seventh overall selection in the 2017 Canadian Football League draft.

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Luke was a pass-rushing, quarterback-sacking force at the University of Montreal. He was also named the top lineman at the NCAA National Bowl all-star game in Daytona Beach, Fla. and was invited to the New York Giants rookie mini-camp.

His 1-on-1 drills domination at CFL Combine sold the Lions on a solid 6-2, 290-pound guy who was once soft and lazy, got a motivational kick in the football pants and now believes the sky is the limit for his emerging game.

That’s something to see and talk about.

“If you give me a chance, I can do something,” Luke said Wednesday before the Lions departed for rookie camp which opens Thursday in Kamloops. “I just need to adapt to the speed at the pro level and learn from the veterans. I don’t need to force anything. I just need to be there and play the way I’m supposed to and show why I’m here and we’ll see.”