B.C. Lions' backup QB position "wide open", Tedford says

QB GREG MCGHEE
College: Howard University
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
Courtesy: B.C. Lions

KAMLOOPS, British Columbia — Football decision-makers have long concluded that having a top-notch backup quarterback is vital.

B.C. Lions head coach Jeff Tedford feels no differently. He just has to figure out who he is.

“After (Travis) Lulay, it’s a wide open competition,” Tedford declared Saturday, after the Lions’ three-day mini-camp for rookies and first-year players ended. “Travis is our starter.”

Veteran John Beck, the presumptive No. 2 quarterback in many eyes, will have to compete for that role, Tedford seemed to suggest, though that opportunity won’t occur right away.

Beck is being quarantined after being laid low by a bug and won’t be on the field Sunday when the Lions open their main training camp at Hillside Stadium.

That means more practice repetitions for holdover Travis Partridge and two Lions rookie quarterbacks, Jon Jennings and Greg McGhee, who move on to the main camp.

The Lions released two more rookie QBs today -- Boise State’s Grant Hedrick and Aaron Wilmer of Delaware Valley -- who simply didn’t have the time to get up to speed with the others.

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