Draft-eligible Rossetti offers Argonauts personnel touch
He’s actually eligible for this year’s CFL draft, but instead of looking forward to playing pro football, Chris Rossetti will help determine other players’ careers.
Rossetti, 22, will be among the Argonauts braintrust at this weekend’s CFL Combine in Toronto, where more than 50 top Canadian college football players will be trying to improve their rankings for the CFL draft on May 6.
After working as an unpaid scouting intern last season, the former Guelph Gryphons quarterback was hired last month to be the Scullers’ player personnel assistant. He’ll be among those evaluating this weekend’s talent.
Following Friday’s medicals and interviews, players will be measured and go through flexibility tests, bench presses and vertical jumps on Saturday before doing drills under the bubble at Varsity Field on Sunday.
Some of the players will be Rossetti’s friends. Some will be rivals, including a few who delivered punishing hits to him during his four-year Canadian college career. But friendships and enemies aside, his job now is to help find the best talent available for the Double Blue.
“You absolutely have to put personal feelings aside,” said Rossetti, who lives in Mississauga and played high school ball for Toronto’s St. Michael’s College. “When it comes down to it, you have to find the best player for your team.
“As for the guys who tried to take my head off on the field, there are no hard feelings. That’s football. That’s what they’re supposed to do — just like I was trying to beat them.