Courtesy Calgary Herald:

In his Canadian Football League career, Ben Sankey has thrown more than twice as many touchdowns as interceptions.

His career completion percentage is a more than respectable 63.4 per cent.

His career QB rating, measuring his efficiency as a passer, sits at 101.7, a number that would have put him second only to fellow Calgary Stampeder Henry Burris last season.

And yet, here he sits in the Stampeders’ training camp, eight years into his professional football career and battling for a No. 3 job behind Burris and Dave Dickenson.

Frustrated? How could he not be?

“Sometimes that’s just motivation, and you have to use it as that,” insisted the 31-year-old Chicagoan, who should see some action Friday when the Stamps host the Edmonton Eskimos in a pre-season contest at McMahon Stadium (7 p.m., QR77 Radio). “I don’t get irritated or frustrated with it because that will just bring my game down. I’m the kind of person who wants to go in and compete, and let the chips fall where they may.”

Those chips will fall some time around June 21 when Stamps coach John Hufnagel decides between Sankey and the still rough-around-the-edges Barrick Nealy as the No. 3 man on the depth chart at quarterback.

Keeping both players, with one of them on the practice roster, probably isn’t an option, said Hufnagel.

“I don’t think so,” he said. “Unless something occurs where I don’t think I should keep all four, it’s hard to. I would if I could, put it that way, but I don’t think it’s possible.

“It’s how they perform — how they perform in the practices here and how they perform with the opportunities they get in a (pre-season) game.”

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