A familiar face is back on the football field.
ECU football alum Stanley Bryant missed the last three Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ games. In his career, he had only missed four games. However, an injured ankle sidelined him while his teammates struggled.
Winnipeg went 1-2 during that stretch and sits 4-3 going into Saturday’s game at Calgary. But the Blue Bombers have their guy back on the offensive line, a player regarded as the best to ever be at the position.
“He’s our anchor out there,” center Chris Kolankowski said to The Winnipeg Sun.
Writer Paul Friesen calls Bryant, a 39-year-old, 6-foot-4, 313 pounder with 245 games on the offensive line under his belt, “a temper tamer, too, a steadying force who occasionally has to pull on the emotional reins of teammates.”
“He’s an even-keel player,” Kolankowski said. “The one that brings us down when we’re too high or pulls us up when we’re too low. That’s what I look to him for. I’m an emotional guy. Sometimes I go too far one way or the other, and he’s the guy that brings me back to that middle ground where I need to be.”
Photo credit: Stanley Bryant (The WInnipeg Sun photo)
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