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Jake Waters has a passport, but he’s never been to Canada.

That’s going to change soon.

The former St. Albert, Iowa Western and Kansas State quarterback is one of six international free agents who have signed with the Canadian Football League’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats, the team announced this week.

Waters said Wednesday that his two-year contract is contingent on his making the team.

“It’s going to be a great opportunity, another chance to play ball,” said Waters, who led IWCC to a junior-college national championship in 2012, quarterbacked St. Albert to two state Class 1-A championships and started for two years at K-State, ending in 2014.

Waters spent time in the NFL with Jacksonville and Seattle in the preseason last year. After Seattle released him, he returned to Council Bluffs, where he has been an assistant coach while keeping himself ready for another opportunity. Lately, he’s been throwing with his brothers, former Ohio U. receiver Matt and younger brother Luke, who will be a junior quarterback at St. Albert this fall.

He said he had hoped to get another chance to play.