Tonight’s Ohio Bobcats-Buffalo Bulls NCAA football game on TSN will showcase Oakville, Ont., quarterback Kurtis Rourke, giving CFL fans a preview of what they could see up close as soon as next season, Dave Naylor writes.
Ohio University quarterback Kurtis Rourke will play his closest game to home this season when the Oakville, Ont., native and his Bobcats team visit the University of Buffalo to take on the Bulls Tuesday night in Mid-American Conference NCAA football action on TSN.
A repeat of his 2022 MAC Player of the Year season would give the 6-foot-5, 231-pound passer a shot to be taken in the 2024 NFL Draft or be signed as a priority free agent. There were 14 quarterbacks selected in the 2023 draft and another 13 signed as priority college free agents last spring, putting Rourke on the bubble of whether or not he will get an NFL opportunity. A strong showing down the final three games of the season would help.
Last week’s 30-16 loss to Miami was a prime example, as the Bobcats took eight offensive penalties and managed just 50 yards on the ground.“I’m happy with his toughness and finding a way to move the ball without a consistent running game,” Ohio coach Tim Albin said this week. “That’s difficult to do. He’s doing a good job of managing that and not pressing. We want Kurtis to make every throw but it’s just not going to happen.
But there is context to that as well. From the outset of this season, there was expectation that Rourke’s numbers would come down based on the high quality of the Ohio defence that, as projected, has kept them out of shootout-style games.
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