DRESSLER MAKING HIS MARK

By: Randy Covitz
Kansas City Star

Wide receiver Weston Dressler chose No. 13 with the Chiefs as homage to the fans in Saskatchewan, where he was a star for six seasons in the Canadian Football League.

The CFL plays with 12 men on the field, and the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ fans are known as the “13th Man.”

“The fans there were really amazing, they really welcomed me,” said Dressler, who caught 442 passes for 6,536 yards and 43 touchdowns and was a two-time CFL all-star while wearing No. 7. “It will always be a special place in my heart, and out of respect to the fans up there … I could have easily stayed and played a few more years up there, but I pursued this opportunity.

“I wanted to show them I appreciated everything they did for me while I was up there.”

Dressler, a diminutive 5-foot-7, 179 pounds, would be the fifth player in Chiefs history to be issued No. 13 and first since quarterback Ricky Stanzi, who did not appear in a game in 2011.

Dressler, 28, played in Canada after NFL teams, concerned about his lack of size, passed on him after he played at North Dakota and was the school’s all-time leading receiver. He is still readjusting to the 11-man game after signing with the Chiefs in February.

“The biggest things for me right now are the spacing on the field … moving back to a smaller field … getting used to the splits of the receivers … and the speed of the game,” Dressler said. “The windows are a little bit smaller, and you have to be in and out of your breaks a little bit faster.

FROM FOXSPORTS.COM:

:02 … PHILLIP GAINES AND WESTON DRESSLER CAN FLAT-OUT MOTOR

Fifth-rounder Aaron Murray wound up getting picked off four times during 11-on-11s Saturday, and Gaines, a corner out of Rice, got his hands on one of those as well.

In fact, one of the better individual matchups among newcomers was Gaines, one on one, against Canadian Football League import Weston Dressler.

At one point in the 11-on-11 phase, the 5-8 Dressler blew past Gaines — who reportedly put up a 4.31 40 time at the combine — by a few steps and had a clear line on a fly pattern that landed several inches out of his grasp. Gaines got Dressler back, though, later in the full-team drills, jockeying for position on another rainbow and jumping higher than the smaller receiver to snare the pick.

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