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Ticats’ mini-camp will accomplish two goals

Zach Collaros and the Ticats are holding their mini-camp at Tim Hortons Field this week. Darren Calabrese/THE CANADIAN PRESS

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have kicked off their annual mini-camp.

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Mother Nature gave the players and coaches pretty much all they could handle on Day 1 with a dose of steady ready and cool temperatures.

Forty-six players are listed on the mini-camp roster, along with an additional seven, count ’em, seven kickers.

It’s clear the Ticats are throwing a bunch of fishing lines into the water in the hopes of pulling one out and catching a bona fide kicker.

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And who knows, someone else could emerge at the main camp beginning in late May.

While the Ticats are using the mini-camp to potentially find their kicker of the future, the three days of chucking the pigskin around at Tim Hortons Fields has a bigger purpose.

Mini-camp accomplishes a couple of goals.

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Number one, it gives the coaching staff a good idea of where their incoming rookies and negotiation list players stand, in relation to the established veterans who are already here.

Secondly, mini-camp provides a massive boost to first-year CFL players.

And I’m not talking about rookies coming out of the CIS.

No, I’m referring to those first-year players who have no idea about CFL rules, let alone the Tiger-Cats’ gargantuan playbook.

But everyone has to start somewhere, including those wide-eyed Americans who will just be trying to keep up with their Canadian colleagues this week.

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