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Solomon Elimimian’s amazing, unlikely season continues to be honoured.

On Tuesday, the CFL named the Lions’ veteran linebacker as one of its three players of the week for a third time in the 2016 season.

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The 30-year-old Elimimian, in his seventh season with the Lions, was the first solely defensive player to win the CFL’s Most Outstanding Player award in 2014, when he set a league record with 143 tackles.

The following season, Elimimian suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon, in mid-August 2015, had surgery days later, and was done for the season.

Wrote Mike Beamish after the surgery:

In a study of 31 National Football League players who sustained an Achilles tendon rupture, 21 (64 per cent) returned to play an average of 11 months later. In the three seasons following their return, those 21 saw significant decreases in power and games played compared to the three seasons before the injury.

Elimimian hasn’t missed a beat this year. Last Saturday against the Saskatchewan Roughriders, he had 10 tackles and two sacks. He now has 128 tackles this season, the second-highest total in his career. And he has a career-high eight sacks.