Toronto's head coach says that Chad Owens "makes us a different team"

Sun = Toronto Sun


About how he thought about his future when he was recovering from a torn ACL two years ago, Chad Owens said:
"I was on that side where I was not playing football, I was out of the game. You don't know how good you have it until you lose it. I didn't know what to do with my life, and that's why I play the game the way I do." (Sun)


Sun Note: "A day after his peers in the Canadian Football League chose him in a TSN poll as the biggest threat to score from anywhere on the field, Owens on Wednesday was voted as the Argos nominee for the CFL's most outstanding special teams player award. Owens has won a weekly award six times and last week became the fifth player in league history to amass 1,000 yards in both punt returns and kickoff returns. With a league-high 2,701 combined yards, Owens is a shoo-in to be named the league's most outstanding special-teams player when the awards are announced during Grey Cup week in Edmonton."


About how Chad Owens changes their team, Toronto head coach Jim Barker said:
"If I said I knew he was going to be (the favourite for) special-teams player of year, I would be lying. He has turned out to be, well, you just never know until you coach a guy. He has the respect of everyone in this league -- they know he makes us a different team." (Sun)

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