Toronto is now Kelly's long-term home, which is a dream for a player who grew up just two hours away in Western New York. In Kelly the Argos have a unicorn – an NFL-calibre player at the game’s most important position who isn’t much of a threat to end up back in that league.
Roughly 15 months after he first crossed the border in an effort to resurrect his pro football career, Chad Kelly stood under brilliant sunshine on Thursday following practice and recited all the things that have gone right in his life since that time: the return of his love for the game, the most fun he’s had since he played for the Grand Island Vikings when he was a kid, being part of a winning Argonauts squad, and the girlfriend he met in Toronto last summer.
That is unless the National Football League should come calling, a notion Kelly all but dismissed following the announcement of his new deal, repeating his commitment to the Argos while stopping short of shutting the door all together. It’s undoubtedly part of the formula he’s used this season, his first as Toronto’s No. 1 quarterback, where he’s been nothing short of sensational in leading the Argonauts to a CFL-best 8-1 mark.
No NFL team is going to offer him a No. 1 job based off of his play in one CFL season. He’s also not an ideal fit for a No. 2 role, given that those players are usually either high draft picks or NFL veterans with some starting experience who are there to mentor young quarterbacks. The No. 3 guys are usually younger, developmental players.
Argonaut owners have tried almost everything over the years, but the one thing they haven’t had going for them is a consistent winner.
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