It looks as if the Giants are reaching across the border in the ongoing attempt to improve their offensive line.
Reports out of Canada state the Giants on Tuesday will sign Brett Jones, named the top offensive lineman in the Canadian Football League in 2014. Jones, 23, played the past two seasons for the Calgary Stampeders. In 2013, Jones was voted the CFL’s top rookie. He reportedly worked out for the Giants, Buccaneers and Steelers.
At 6-foot-2 and 318 pounds, Jones is a center, a spot the Giants are expected to fill with Weston Richburg, who spent his rookie year at left guard, next season. Richburg, a 2014 second-round pick, was an accomplished center at Colorado State and it is his natural position. Jones could also get a look at guard with the Giants.
A native of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Jones could become the fifth University of Regina Rams player on an NFL roster.
“[The NFL] has pretty much been my goal the whole time that I’ve been in the CFL,’’ Jones recently told the Regina Leader-Post. “I knew that if I wanted to get a chance to play down there, I’d have to prove it in the CFL.”