The Edmonton Elks used the 2022 CFL Global Draft on Tuesday morning to select three players from three continents with one common trait: they’ve all got powerful legs.
With the ninth overall pick ...
Draft Day in the CFL isn’t limited to just a couple hours within the borders of one country, anymore. It’s now an all-day affair encompassing talent from around the world.
Hours before the 2022 ...
Every player has a draft story. Oftentimes happy, sometimes not, but never dull.
Take the tale of David Beard, for example.
It’s just past the dinner hour in Edmonton on May 12, 2015, and in his ...
The Edmonton Elks made six selections in tonight’s 2021 CFL Draft.
1st Round, 5th overall – DL Cole Nelson (University of Alberta)
Nelson stays in Edmonton and in the Green and Gold after ...
The EE Football Team announces made the following selections in the 2021 CFL Global Draft:
First Round (2nd Overall): OL Steven Nielsen – Eastern Michigan University
Nielsen is ...
Preparing for the 2020 CFL Draft has been drastically altered by social distancing protocols created by the COVID-19 pandemic, but the actual event itself won’t be much different.
The CFL Draft, ...
If a strong group of Canadian players is considered the lifeblood of a CFL team, then the Eskimos are in good shape.
The Eskimos have been developing a good Canadian base out of the CFL Draft in ...
Jordan Beaulieu was feeling a lot of emotions coming into the 2018 CFL Draft, but mostly he was feeling anxious.
He didn’t know what to expect – “You don’t know what the teams want and need,” he ...
There are so many special milestones defensive back Jordan Hoover says he’ll never forget from the first three years of his CFL career:
Getting selected in the fourth round, 31st overall, of the ...
David Beard was pleasantly surprised at the 2015 CFL Draft.
The six-foot-five, 327-pound Sherwood Park product was “pretty anxious” after breaking his wrist halfway through his final U Sports ...
Kwaku Boateng’s fall from grace at the 2017 CFL Draft was shocking.
He had been rated the No. 2 prospect behind Mississippi State University offensive lineman Justin Senior in the fall rankings ...
The Edmonton Eskimos made the following eight selections in tonight’s CFL Draft.
Round 1 (5th overall): Wide Receiver Nate Behar
In four seasons with the Carleton University Ravens, ...
For the fourth straight year, the CFL Scouting Bureau’s top prospect is likely to fall to at least the third round, maybe lower, in the 2017 CFL Draft, which starts Sunday at 5 p.m.
Mississippi ...
Edmonton Eskimos offensive lineman Simeon Rottier was so busy in the spring of 2009 that he almost didn’t have time for the CFL Draft.
“I was trying to finish up school and we got married on ...
Wide receiver Shamawd Chambers wasn’t surprised when he was drafted sixth overall by the Edmonton Eskimos in 2012.
Chambers, who had been ranked anywhere from second to fourth by the CFL Scouting ...
Draft day can be somewhat of a happening.
When a group of Laval players and their families gathered in a Quebec City restaurant for the 2015 event, they knew one thing for sure.
One year earlier, ...
The Edmonton Eskimos added six to the roster during Tuesday’s 2016 CFL Draft:
1st Round, 8th Overall: WR Tevaun Smith
Over a four-year career at the University of Iowa, Tevaun Smith ...
Draft day can be plenty of fun. The earlier you’re picked, the quicker the high fives start flyin’.
As a linebacker in his senior year at Angelo State in Texas, Blair Smith registered 100 tackles ...
There’s never guarantees where a football player will end up on CFL draft day.
From Vancouver to Montreal and anywhere in between can be as predictable as a roll of the dice.
So, when David Beard ...
