Johnny Manziel will make his first Canadian Football League start Friday night when the Montreal Alouettes face the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, the team the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner turned NFL bust began his comeback with. He last saw regular-season action with the NFL’s Cleveland Browns in a 17-13 loss to Kansas City on Dec. 27, 2015.
“I’m hoping to come in and just provide above average, solid quarterback play and give us something consistent week in and week out,” Manziel said Thursday. “I don’t feel I need to come up here and completely light everything on fire and throw for 500 yards a game and do this and do that.