Shaun King Connection / Nate / LaBoy

Hamilton Tiger-Cat QB Timmy Chang now has more competition for the starting job.

Former National Football League quarterback Shaun King is expected to be unveiled as a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at a media conference today, squeezing into an already crowded depth chart that should erupt into a full-blown positional battle when training camp opens this weekend.

Hamilton now has five quarterbacks under contract, including incumbent starter Jason Maas. King, who turned 30 yesterday, has seven seasons of NFL experience on his resume but has not thrown a meaningful pass in three years.

Good luck to Timmy. In an interesting bit of trivia, Shaun King has a connection with three UH quarterbacks:

1. King will be competing with Timmy Chang for the Tiger-Cat's starting QB job.

2. King was released from the AFL's Las Vegas Gladiators last month, a team that former UH QB Nick Rolovich is now currently starting for.

3. Last season, Colt Brennan broke Shaun King's NCAA season passing efficiency record.

Ooooo, spooky.

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Nate Ilaoa talks about being in Eagles mini-camp, which continues through this week.

Both Hunt and Ilaoa said they thought their aptitude for catching the ball was helpful.

"This offense has a lot of good routes for the backs, in motion, split wide," Hunt noted. "As a running back, you kind of like that, being matched up against a linebacker in space."

Ilaoa (pronounced Allow-ah) said he'd heard "there was a lot more passing here than with most NFL teams," which is fine with him because "that's what I'm used to out in Hawaii. You block first in Hawaii; you always have a gunslinger sitting back there [at quarterback]. Coach [June] Jones wants you to protect 'the golden arm.' Everything happens from there. Here, you're not just blocking, you can go out there and get the ball."

He said he was "bug-eyed" in the first minicamp, but "this [camp] kind of takes a step back . . . everybody's on the same page, you can just kind of sit back and get through this thing together."

Ilaoa said in this minicamp, the coaches take over the roles veterans played in the first get-together.

"When the vets were here for the first camp, me and Tony were tapping into their information system the whole time," Ilaoa said. "The coaches weren't really coaching us, they were just kind of like, 'Let's go, this is the tempo.' With the vets here, that's how they run things."

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And it looks like Travis LaBoy is on his way to recovering from knee surgery.

BACK: Several other Titans players were back on the field working on Tuesday, including receiver Jonathan Orr (hamstring), cornerback Ryan Smith (hamstring) and defensive end Travis LaBoy (knees).

Good news.