Is Dru Brown durable enough to be a CFL quarterback?

He started and finished less than half of his team's games during the 2025 CFL season and often played at less than 100 per cent.

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The common belief inside the football locker room at TD Place is that the Ottawa Redblacks’ failures this season had more to do with the quarterbacking than the coaching. Article content

Not that Dustin Crum didn’t perform admirably — the players have plenty of respect and love for the gutsy backup signal caller — but that starter Dru Brown was unable to live up to his end of the deal because of injuries. Article content Article content

Brown, who started and finished less than half of the Canadian Football League team’s 18 games, admitted on Saturday that he wasn’t always at 100 per cent even when he was on the field .

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