As many posters have mentioned there are numerous factors that are in play as to why the numbers are down but to me the biggest reason is the shift in the NFL focus to mobile QBs and the roster size that allows them to keep more guys.
Football at all levels is a QB driven sport but even moreso in the CFL with the bigger field and only 2 downs. Even if every QB stayed healthy this year the crop of QBs is really poor.
Mitchell, Collaros and I guess Reilly are the best of the "young" guys and I am not sure any of them are at the level of Garcia, Ham, Flutie, Calvillo, Dickenson etc. Mitchell and Collaros may get there in a year or two but not right now. Then you have the old guys Ray, Burris, Durant that are clearly a step or 3 below what they were. Throw in the garbage in Montreal and Winnipeg and the QB situation is really poor.
I am not sure how long they would have stayed and they may have been drafted anyways but guys like Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick seem like guys that in the past would have been CFLers. I am sure there are other back-ups that I am forgetting as well.
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