Rookie linebacker Herdman to report to Argos with chip on his shoulder
TORONTO — Justin Herdman will report to the Toronto Argonauts with a big chip on his shoulder.
Toronto selected the six-foot-one, 235-pound Simon Fraser linebacker in the seventh round, 54th overall, in Sunday’s CFL draft. While very grateful for the opportunity to play professional football, Herdman felt he should’ve been called much earlier.
He was the fifth linebacker drafted and second by Toronto, which took Laurier’s Nakas Onyeka in the fifth round. He was, however, selected six spots ahead of his twin brother Jordan, also an SFU linebacker who was drafted by the B.C. Lions.
But when rookie camp opens later this month, Justin Herdman will have something to prove.