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Domo: New Bird Grymes migrated from Canada

IT IS the dream of 99.9 percent of the football-playing kids in America to one day play in the NFL.

It certainly was Aaron Grymes' dream three years ago, but it didn't quite work out.

Grymes, an all-conference cornerback at the University of Idaho, went unclaimed in the 2013 draft. No one signed him after the draft, either.

The Green Bay Packers invited him to their rookie minicamp on a tryout basis, but he didn't stick.

With his wife Hannah three months pregnant, Grymes needed a job. His position coach at Idaho, Torey Hunter, had played in the Canadian Football League and asked him if he might be interested in going up there.