Several players with Canadian roots have occupied NFL rosters for years now, but a recent trend has seen these same athletes migrate to the United States straight from universities up in the Great White North rather than first enrolling in American colleges where they’ll have an opportunity to get acquainted with the different style of football practiced in the lower half of the North American continent.
Among the notables of current vintage to make that jump are offensive guards Laurent Duvernay-Tardif of the Kansas City Chiefs and Brett Jones of the New York Giants.