Courtesy Edmonton Journal:

A.J. Harris, Ron (Goldie) McClendon and Damien Anderson may be after the same job, but they’re not after each other’s throats.

The trio of Edmonton Eskimos running backs made light of their potentially awkward situation on Monday, prior to a three-hour practice. At one point, McClendon jokingly attempted to rescue Anderson from an oncoming media scrum, grabbing his teammate by the arm and pulling him away, screaming, “Save yourself!” Later, while stretching on the field at the start of practice, McClendon and Harris broke into song, serving up an off-key rendition of the theme to the 1990’s sitcom The Wayans Bros.

All three men know, though, that they have the very serious job of stopping the Eskimos’ running game from becoming a Canadian Football League joke.

The Eskimos rushed for a total of 110 yards in their first two games this season — the CFL’s second-worst total, just six yards ahead of the 0-2 Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Edmonton head coach Danny Maciocia brought McClendon (who is on the team’s practice roster) and Harris (who is on the active roster) back from the training camp dead for one reason: His running line, particularly Damien Anderson, hasn’t been producing.

“It’s not really awkward,” Harris said of the biding for playing time against Anderson. “It’s the same situation we were in when we were in camp, it’s just going to go back to what it was before.

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