It began with a phone call, as these stories often do.

Gordy Elliott, a respected veteran football coach at Auburn high school in Washington state, had a quarterback he believed Bruce Barnum, the head coach at Portland State, might be interested in — Davis Alexander.

“He called me up and said, ‘Barney, you must look at this kid,’ and Gordy doesn’t say that about many,” Barnum told The Gazette this week. “When Gordy speaks about somebody, like he did Davis. …”

Physically, there wasn’t much to Alexander, now the Alouettes’ starter, who is undefeated in 13 games over two seasons and preparing for his first Grey Cup on Sunday, when Montreal faces off against Saskatchewan in Winnipeg (6 p.m., CTV, TSN1, TSN3, TSN4, TSN5, RDS). At 6 feet, he was undersized and raw. “He didn’t look the p

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