Tiger-Cats’ Brandon Banks has seen career take off since last Labour Day
HAMILTON — Labour Day has done wonders for Brandon Banks’ receiving career.
The quick and diminutive Hamilton receiver reached a milestone 3,000 career receiving yards in the Tiger-Cats’ 42-28 victory over the Toronto Argonauts on Monday. Most notably, though, is that more than half of them have been earned since last year’s Labour Day match-up.
Banks made a 35-yard catch-and-run late in the first half to cross that marker and then capped that same Ticat drive with a 19-yard touchdown reception. He finished the game with nine catches for 135 yards and two TDs.
“I’m just playing football — what I’ve been doing since I was five years old,” said the five-foot-seven, 150-pound Kansas State product.