Casey Bauman and Joel Dublanko don’t need their new-found dual citizenships to make them feel at home in Canada.
The American-born football prospects have family ties that led to their designations as nationals for the April 30 CFL global and Canadian drafts, but they both already felt a connection.
“It doesn’t feel that weird to me because Canada was my backyard,” said Bauman, a six-foot-seven, 225-pound quarterback who was born in Sumas, Wash.
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