Vert et Or’s Gosselin invited to Kansas City Chiefs Mini Camp
“I was just ready to do those tests in the bench press and the 40 and I performed so that even after no one knew who I was really, so that even the NFL knew who I was now,” said Gosselin on his performance at the Main CFL scouting combine in Saskatoon.
With the CFL draft coming up this weekend, Gosselin has the benefit of playing one of the most depth providing positions teams need on their rosters, playing as a fullback/tight end and being able to contribute on special teams. “He doesn’t play the most glamourous position in football, but he plays a position that teams always have a need for. He’s a guy who can block, catch and have an impact on special teams,” said Fred Weinrauch.
Weinrauch, who represents over 60 players in the CFL as an agent with Centre 68 believes that Gosselin should be taken between third and fourth rounds of the CFL draft this weekend. However, if a team is high on him he could be gone as early as the late second round.
For context unlike the NFL which has 32 teams where a late second round pick would mean that a player was taken in the range of 58th-64th overall. In the nine-team CFL, a player drafted as the last pick of the fourth round will still be the 35th overall pick.
Kansas City is no stranger to Canadian players and the impact they can have, as coincidence would have it Gosselin is very familiar with the Chiefs’ current star Canadian player, offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-tardif.
“We went to primary school together actually, we’re from the same hometown and trained with each other one or twice times last summer, it’ll be good to see him again,” said Gosselin.