Every Thursday, Lindsay Jones answers your NFL offseason questions during a Live Q&A. This new weekly mailbag tackles some of the questions she wasn’t able to get to in real time.



Lindsay, you are one of the best in the business. Thanks for the great articles. Why don’t more guys who don’t get on rosters in the NFL attempt to join a team in the Canadian Football League? It is a good league with great competition. I think (Tim) Tebow should have done it. Imagine a Tebow to (Duron) Carter TD pass! It could have happened! Do you like the CFL? – Eric T.



Hi Eric, this is a great way to kick off this mailbag. Very interesting question. There are a couple of things here, though one part might be changing. The first is that there’s not a lot of money in Canada. Teams have a salary cap of just over $5 million, so the majority of CFL players are making less than $100,000. (Good money in the scheme of life, but not in football). If a player is...