Bereaved Mainor questionable

By: Paul Wiecek Posted: 1:00 AM CDT Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011

WINNIPEG Blue Bombers defensive end Kenny Mainor has gone home to Georgia following the death of his grandmother and is questionable for this Saturday's game against the Eskimos in Edmonton.

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WINNIPEG Blue Bombers defensive end Kenny Mainor has gone home to Georgia following the death of his grandmother and is questionable for this Saturday's game against the Eskimos in Edmonton.

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WINNIPEG Blue Bombers defensive end Kenny Mainor has gone home to Georgia following the death of his grandmother and is questionable for this Saturday’s game against the Eskimos in Edmonton.

Bombers head coach Paul LaPolice said Wednesday afternoon that Mainor returned home earlier this week and it is unclear whether he will return in time to play against the Eskimos.

“I told him I’d support him in anyway possible,” said LaPolice. “Our organization thinks family is very important. So we’re prepping for life without him, but if he’s back, he’s back.”

Mainor — who’s tied for fifth in the CFL with seven sacks — platoons in and out of one defensive end position with fellow lineman Fernand Kashama and Jason Vega, while CFL sack leader Odell Willis anchors the other side of the Bombers defensive line.

If Mainor cannot return this week, Bombers defensive coordinator Tim Burke said to expect to see import defensive end Quentin Davie — a 6-4, 240-pound product out of Northwestern — to be activated from the practice roster for some depth.

In addition to Mainor, defensive backs Johnny Sears and Alex Suber and defensive lineman Don Oramasionwu and Rodney Fritz also didn’t practise on Wednesday.

LaPolice said Suber, Oramasionwu and Sears are all expected to return to practice at Canad Inns Stadium on Thursday.

It will be the final full practice this week for the Bombers, who are scheduled to travel to Edmonton on Friday in advance of Saturday evening’s game.

— The Bombers are a couple of quarterbacks lighter on the payroll this morning after parting company on Wednesday with CFL journeyman Michael Bishop and NFL castoff Adam Froman.

Acquired by the Bombers a couple weeks ago when the health of both starting quarterback Buck Pierce and backup Alex Brink was in question, Bishop never dressed for the Bombers in a game and was released, the Bombers announced Wednesday afternoon.

The Bombers also released Froman — a late cut of the Atlanta Falcons this year — earlier Wednesday. The two releases mean the Bombers once again have four quarterbacks in town — Pierce, Brink, Justin Goltz and fourth-stringer Brandon Summers.

The two quarterbacks were released on the same day the CFL trading deadline came and went without much of interest occurring. The Bombers did not make any trades on the final day, although their opponent this week, the Eskimos did, acquiring RB Hugh Charles from the Saskatchewan Roughriders in exchange for a conditional pick in the 2014 CFL draft.

— Wiecek

Not exactly tickled pink

“It probably wouldn’t be the colour I’d pick.”

–Bombers QB Buck Pierce on the pink jerseys Bombers quarterbacks are wearing in practice as part of an awareness promotion for breast cancer

A mystery gift

“That’s been part of the fun — it’s like opening a present every week and you get to find out which 2011 Bombers team is playing. It must drive our opponents as crazy as it does some of us, wondering which Bombers team they’ll get — the one that got beaten up by Saskatchewan on Labour Day or the one that went into Montreal and won. Luckily, our record says it’s usually the second one.”

–Bombers defensive tackle Doug Brown on the split personality of the 2011 Bombers