Indiana University quarterback Kurtis Rourke holds the No. 1 ranking in the winter edition of the CFL Scouting Bureau released on Wednesday.
Rourke finished ninth in Heisman Trophy voting after he led Indiana to the College Football Playoff and set Indiana's single-season passing touchdown record and had the fifth-most passing yards in school history with 3,042.
He spent five seasons in the NCAA, four with Ohio and one with Indiana. In 36 college games, he made 33 starts and passed for 10,693 yards and 79 touchdowns and 13 rushing majors. 1 | Kurtis Rourke | QB | Indiana | Oakville, Ont.3 | Elic Ayomanor | WR | Stanford | Medicine Hat, Alta.5 | Keelan White | WR | Montana | North Vancouver, B.C.7 | Jeremiah Ojo | DL | Montreal | Montreal9 | Hayden Harris | DL | Montana | Mill Creek, Wash.11 | Christopher Fortin | OL | Connecticut | Saint-René, Que.
The CFL Scouting Bureau is comprised of CFL scouts, player personnel directors and general managers from the league's nine teams and releases its rankings three times a year leading up to the draft.
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