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There’s a bit of a story behind the story of Sherrod Baltimore, the Redblacks’ nominee for outstanding rookie in 2017 who made the team out of training camp after he was “spotted” at an open tryout down south.

It’s about how he wound up at the open tryout in the first place.

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Baltimore was helping the coaches at his former college, the University of Maine, when Jean-Marc Edme, the Redblacks’ director of player personnel, showed up on a recruiting mission.

“I asked him if they need corners,” the 25-year old Baltimore said Wednesday at TD Place. “He said, ‘Yeah, always.’ So I always texted him. Always hit him up, every day: ‘Did you watch my film? What did the coach say? What did the coach say? We’ve got to have a workout. Let me show you I can play.’

“He watched the film and he was like, ‘Yo, I think you can play.’ So I came to a workout and I did my thing.”

The rest is history.

“God is good,” Baltimore said. “He blessed me with another opportunity to play. I didn’t know if I was going to play football anymore. I thought I was going to be coaching. God has blessed me with another opportunity.