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On April 16, he joined the Eskimos.

“I think it’s the best option, me and my agent had a discussion about instead of going straight to the NFL, get some film as a receiver so you can show everybody you can play the position,” Gibson said. “And just go out there and play.”

And get back on track after not having one of the smoothest collegiate careers.

“But everybody has a story to tell, so it’s all good,” said Gibson, whose issues never entered the legal realm, by any means. “It is what it is. Everybody’s going to have their side of the story. Until you ask me, everybody has their opinion.

“I just leave it in the past, I don’t even bring it up. You’ve got to move on.”

Somewhere along the way, Gibson lost his way, but that doesn’t make him any less of a tantalizing talent for Eskimos general manager Brock Sunderland.

“His agent and I know each other pretty well and bumped into each other in January at the NFLPA game,” said Sunderland. “He told me a little bit about Torrance’s background, where he’s at now, his aspirations of playing wide receiver.

“I did my background, I know a couple people at Ohio State, so I made a couple phone calls and did some research on him. They all said he would have been in the mix at receiver right away as a red-shirt freshman.”

After watching Gibson play a spring game with Ohio State, the Eskimos worked him out at one of their U.S. tryouts at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.

“He ran a 4.4 (second 40-yard dash), he brought it over 10 feet (vertical touch) at six-foot-four and over 220 pounds, so he has a very high ceiling,” Sunderland said. “He’s still raw at the position because he hasn’t played it a lot, but all the physical tools are there and the fact that he’s been a quarterback at a very high level, we certainly anticipate him picking up the offence quickly.”