Article content

The annual game of projecting which player may sign here, which player gets re-upped by his own team, which player gets overpaid when desperate teams make an insane financial pitch to a free agent hasn’t officially kicked in, but the talk can now begin.

On Thursday, the CFL released the list of would-be free agents, a process that does not kick into gear until high noon on Feb. 13.

We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Who will sign on to Argos? Back to video

A total of 220 players can be eligible, which speaks to the new landscape of players opting for one-year deals hoping some bigger payday is around the corner.

Teams always look within before they take the dive into the free-agent pool.

Ottawa took care of its business Thursday by keeping Brad Sinopoli around, a Canadian who would have been coveted by every team had he gone to free agency.

The Argos, in retrospect, caught a break when the likes of Chris Williams, Ernest Jackson and Derek Dennis, some of the biggest free agents in last year’s process, took a look at the team and took a pass knowing the franchise had no GM or head coach.