Johnny Manziel will get a chance to play.
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats traded their backup quarterback to the Montreal Alouettes on Sunday, ESPN reported, in a five-player trade.
Manziel had watched the Tiger-Cats go 2-3 without seeing the field, buried behind starter Jeremiah Masoli. Coach June Jones recently told reporters he hadn’t considered making a quarterback change, and so the front office did, instead.
Manziel has been shipped to the CFL cellar dwellers. The Alouettes are 1-4, having scored just 69 points and given up 148. He will be reunited with coach Mike Sherman, who recruited him to Texas A&M, and fight for the starting job. Vernon Adams Jr., Matthew Shiltz and Drew Willy are Montreal’s QBs, all of whom have seen action this season.
Willy left Montreal’s 25-8 loss to Calgary on Saturday with a hand injury that needed stitches. Shiltz replaced him in the second quarter and completed 16-of-25 passes for 160 yards, was intercepted twice and sacked four times.