Approximately half of the CFL comprises "international" players. In most cases, that means Americans, which usually refers to former college stars and a few who drank a cup of coffee or two in the NFL.
As the CFL regular season kicks off Thursday (Saskatchewan at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPNEWS), let's highlight 10 players U.S.-based fans would recognize. Some of them will overlap with this story naming some of the CFL's top NFL prospects.