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According to the Boilermaker NIL reports he made 90k total.

You don't need to make big money to be making more than your rookie contract. He was down there for 3 years? I think...if that's correct, he's made over 1/2 a mill. Maybe closer to 3/4.

Hoggies don't tend to receive the big college money. Not much merchandising deals for overweight white guys.

Vaccaro has made significantly more in college than he will likely on his first and second cfl contract.

Great gig if you can get it.

I was watching a show. Dude was a former nfl player talking to rookies about money. Said 10 million isn’t really 10’million. In the end Uncle Sam gets a lot of it, in the nfl you also pay taxes in the places you play away games in. Turns out 10 become 2 or 3 pretty quickly. It’s all about money. 5 months 80k? Sign me up.

The nice thing right now is there is a solid pool of Canadian players so the draft doesn't kill you if you take a risk. The other piece is that you have to draft guys who really want to play. Especially if they are getting nice NIL deals and then some NFL time. Like a Mesidor even if he gets bounced out of the NFL in 3 years probably isn't going to come up here to play for $80,000 CDN unless he's a complete football nut and doesn't have anything better to do.

But factual. Winnipeg is pretty much on all the no move and no trade clauses. We aren’t exclusive to that as most Canadian teams plus buffalo still is also but It’s reality. Buffalo just made the playoffs after a 15 year rebuild. No Canadian team has won since the ORiginial jets were around.

NFL draft goes tonight. When is the cfl draft and is tsn showing it again ??

Chevy's mantra anytime the critical light is shone on him.

I have no issue taking anyone not drafted. UDFA's rarely get more than a cup of coffee in the NFL. The odd one sticks on a PR for a year, but most of the time they are brought in as training camp fodder.

https://www.tmz.com/2026/04/22/darrell-sheets-storage-wars-dead/?adid=social-tw Shot himself in the head yikes!

This is always the most important thing... It's such a short window between the NFL draft and ours, making an already difficult task practically Herculean for the CFL GMs... As always, I just hope we take the best "CFL Now" OL available when our pick comes...

It will be interesting to see who gets drafted in the NFL and who gets FA deals.

That guy is a talent that demands a call and consideration from every team in the league. He'd instantly elevate any DL considerably.

Hard to say. Possibly. We should know that pre-draft. 50/50

It is the crux of the problem isn't it. Chevy knows what he needs to do, but can't do it because the guys he would sign won't sign here. We need some young talent in the worst way but haven't had the draft capital to get them. More than anything else, we need a 2C imo, and the only way we are getting one that moves the needle is draft and development. For that reason I hope that we draft Lawrence. No offense to Yager, but his up side is below average 2C, above average 3C....and that won't get us anywhere.

Our draft in on April 28th and still no word on the 2025 SMS spend. IMO that suggests nobody is over or if so only by a nominal amount. Why they can't just report this info in a business like fashion is bush league.

So why don't they sign the free agents who are on the rise and in their prime? Why do you think they sign the washed up guys / over the hill?

with a non-football injury designation. I feel like they may bring him back once he's healthy...?

And Helle was and is right. Toews was a failure. Nyquist was so bad we couldn’t trade him for a bag of pucks. Schenn and Stanley were slow, pionk struggled. Pearson was bad. Team D fell apart. Did Helle have his best year? No he did not. But the least of our problems is Helle. Helle said he likes Winnipeg. He doesn’t understand why nobody else does. Dude basically said the perception is bullshit and Winnipeg is great, he doesn’t understand why ppl don’t like it, he doesn’t get why ppl refuse to come here. Evil isn’t he. When him mark Kyle gabe all signed long term you can bet your ass they were told the team would try and win. Signing a washed up Toews and other washed up guys is not trying to win. We all knew it. The players do also.

Vikings release Hutchings. Waive him. Same thing really no?