On the Eve of Camp, the Cats Make Moves

The Ti-Cats made a number of moves today, but none bigger than the release of Jykine Bradley and the signing of former Arkansas Razorback and USC Trojan Quarterback Mitch Mustain.

Mustain is a known commodity to fans of US college football. However, he is most known for never really seeing the field. Mustain was a highly touted recruit coming out of high school, but was unable to beat out players such as Mark Sanchez and Matt Barkley after Mustain transferred to USC. I'll be interested to see what he does at Training Camp. Mustain has all the talent in the world, so he will at least push Jason Boltus for the #3 position. I would expect Boltus to retain his spot on the depth chart, but Mustain won't make it easy on him.

The other big news is the release of Jykine Bradley. This wasn't much of a surprise considering that Bradley missed a lot of last season with a neck injury. It seems that Bradley was just the odd man out. Bradley will always been known for delivering crushing hits. The guy hit harder than many Linebackers. I wish him all the best.

Bradley Staying Longer

The Tiger-Cats announced this morning that the team has inked Defensive Back Jykine Bradley to a contract extension.

Bradley is a good player who provides reasonable reliability in the Secondary. He's not an All Star, but he's solid.

The Secondary was one of the areas that needed addressing in the off-season, but Bradley wasn't one of the reasons. Then again, neither was Chris Thompson, but that didn't stop him from getting shipped out of town.

Locking up Bradley provides some continuity from last season to this season to next season. Coupling this with the signings of Will Poole and Jason Shivers and the emergence late last season of Dylan Barker, I think the Cats' DBs have the possibility to be among the best groups in the CFL in 2010.