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The murky waters of player procurement in the CFL are choppy at the best of times.

The arrival of Major League Football (MLFB), a startup spring league south of the border, on the pigskin landscape this off-season only added another layer of intrigue and confusion.

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Originally, the publicly-traded MLFB was to begin play this month, but the league recently announced it would be postponing its inaugural season until 2017 and would treat 2016 as a “developmental year” with no games.

It’s left CFL clubs wondering what’s happening with the more than 600 players — many of them athletes that CFL personnel were working out and attempting to sign throughout the winter, as well — still under contract to the eight fledgling MLFB franchises.

According to MLFB senior executive vice-president Frank Murtha, who represents a host of football and baseball players in his role as president of Sports Consultants Inc. in Illinois, the on-hold league will not be preventing players from reconsidering their CFL options over the next few weeks if they wish to do so.