For a younger quarterback with the potential to become a front line performer, the advice is: Be patient, your turn will come, probably sooner than you expect. B.C. Lions’ first-year quarterback Jon Jennings joined a growing list of unproven Canadian Football League QBs — Rakeem Cato, Brett Smith, Robert Marve, James Franklin — thrust into important roles after starter John Beck suffered a shoulder injury in Friday’s 35-23 defeat to the Calgary Stampeders before 31,586 fans at McMahon Stadium.
