
Manziel eager to start for Alouettes, but has ‘tempered’ expectations
MONTREAL — Johnny Manziel is eager to get into a CFL game, but he will let coach Mike Sherman decide when he will make his first start for the Montreal Alouettes.
The 25-year-old quarterback, who is trying to resurrect a promising career, went through his first practice as an Alouette on Monday, a day after the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner was traded to Montreal in a five-player deal from the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
It did not appear that Manziel will start against the visiting Edmonton Eskimos on Thursday night, as Matt Shiltz took most of the first-team snaps.
But management made it clear he was not brought in to stand on the sidelines as he did while backing up Jeremiah Masoli in Hamilton’s first five games of the regular season.