With free agency winding down, the CFL draft will be the next big milestone of the off season.

Draft Date:  May 3, 2018

CFL Combine:  Will be in Winnipeg during Mark's CFL Week March 22 - 25  

Draft Tracker:  https://www.cfl.ca/draft-tracker/

Where do the Bombers pick:   Pick 7 (Round 1 - 7th pick),  Pick 16 (Round 2 - 7th pick),  Pick 26 (Round 3 - 8th pick),  Pick 33 (Round 4 - 7th pick),  Pick 41 (Round 5 - 6th pick),  Pick 49 (Round 6 - 6th pick),  Pick 58 (Round 7 - 7th pick),  Pick 67 (Round 8 - 7th pick), 

Prospect Rankings (December 2017)

Rank	Name	Position	School	Hometown
1 (1)	David Knevel	OL	Nebraska	Brantford, Ont.
2 (2)	Trey Rutherford	OL	Connecticut	Markham, Ont.
3 (3)	Ryan Hunter	OL	Bowling Green	North Bay, Ont.
4 (6)	Peter Godber	OL	Rice	Toronto
5 (10)	Julien Laurent	DL	Georgia State	Toronto
6 (4)	Godfrey Onyeka	DB	Laurier	Brampton, Ont.
7 (12)	Rashaun Simonise	REC	Calgary/Okanagan	Vancouver, B.C.
8 (9)	Regis Cibasu	REC	Montreal	Kinshasa, Congo
9 (5)	Darius Ciraco	OL	Calgary	Burlington, Ont.
10 (-)	Mark Chapman	REC	Central Michigan	Port Huron, Mich.
11 (14)	Dakoda Shepley	OL	UBC	Windsor, Ont.
12 (-)	Mark Korte	OL	Alberta	Spruce Grove, Alta.
13 (19)	Jackson Bennett	DB	Ottawa	Cumberland, Ont.
14 (8)	Kene Onyeka	DL	Carleton	Brampton, Ont.
15 (13)	Andrew Pickett	OL	Guelph	Kitchener, Ont.
16 (15)	Alex Taylor	RB	Western	Winnipeg, Man.
17 (20)	Nelkas Kwemo	LB	Queen’s	Montreal, Que.
18 (16)	Ryan Sceviour	OL	Calgary	Calgary, Alta.
19 (11)	Chris Amoah	RB	Laval	Montreal, Que.
20 (-)	David Brown	OL	Western	London, Ont

another OL ben koczwara waterloo

Edited May 4, 20187 yr by wbbfan

and no qbs go

Sask got one player for 2018 in Micah Teitz.  That's a yikes.

3 OL, 3 WR and a DB.  Beefing up the depth behind our Canadian starters.

Just now, JuranBoldenRules said:

Sask got one player for 2018 in Micah Teitz.  That's a yikes.

jones knows best. ?

17 minutes ago, Colin Unger said:

I wonder how Brett Blaszko feel right now?

Like the luckiest man on earth to have even gotten a chance to play pro?

1 minute ago, Atomic said:

3 OL, 3 WR and a DB.  Beefing up the depth behind our Canadian starters.

A big mean S, 1 huge mean OL with good feet, and 2 very gifted wrs who could make the roster this year. Thats a pretty good haul for getting bcs first next year, and wolitarski too. 

Like most drafts... we can look back at it in a few years a determine how well the bombers did... for now I'll just have to trust our scouts and management...

56 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

and no qbs go

Not surprising. The CFL just bullshits about the qbs every year & never does anything to change things. 

Did we actually trade down from #7 to #12 & pass on some promising OL to draft Simonise? That I don't get. Especially with the players we have now at the receiver positions. 

Not overly happy with our draft this year. 

25 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Did we actually trade down from #7 to #12 & pass on some promising OL to draft Simonise? That I don't get. Especially with the players we have now at the receiver positions. 

Wasn’t about Simonise.

31 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Did we actually trade down from #7 to #12 & pass on some promising OL to draft Simonise? That I don't get. Especially with the players we have now at the receiver positions. 

We did need depth behind the three top cdn WRs.  Might have gone a little overboard, though.

55 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Did we actually trade down from #7 to #12 & pass on some promising OL to draft Simonise? That I don't get. Especially with the players we have now at the receiver positions. 

I really think Walters thought Shepley and Hunter would fall...

2 hours ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

You think?  Or are you thinking Moisan?

Pierre looked pretty damn skinny at the combine.

That is the guy I was thinking about whoopsie daisy. Haven’t quite caught up on the draft yet - did he get picked?

3 hours ago, Mike said:

That is the guy I was thinking about whoopsie daisy. Haven’t quite caught up on the draft yet - did he get picked?

#51 (round 6 / 9th) by Mtl - WR Etienne Moisan

7 hours ago, Floyd said:

Pretty sure Walters thought Shepley and hunter would still be on the board...

id take banner and Mackie over simonise... but that’s about it...

in fine with this draft - it’s pretty shallow anyway

Wow, don't know you can read mind. ?

I think only Simonise and Petermann are sticking around this year. The rest goes back to school as they all have eligibility left.

Edited May 4, 20187 yr by M.O.A.B.

In part we won't be able to evaluate this draft until 2019 when we see who we land with BC's pick.

Who among our current NAT OLs are on the last year of their contract ? 

Edited May 4, 20187 yr by M.O.A.B.

10 hours ago, wbbfan said:

or simonise. 

Kudos Kyle, on a job...done...

10 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Not surprising. The CFL just bullshits about the qbs every year & never does anything to change things. 

pretty much. i feel like the tsn panel on the site talked half the night about it too. I thought maybe atleast the riders would draft picton.

10 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Did we actually trade down from #7 to #12 & pass on some promising OL to draft Simonise? That I don't get. Especially with the players we have now at the receiver positions. 

We traded out of this years draft in order to get what should be a top pick from bc next year and to slightly move up in the 2nd this year. It was the 6th best OL, or the 2nd best wr (in our books). the draft was deep at a few positions. We also just missed out the dbs, that could have been our hope. Plus we had no way to predict petermann would fall soo far too. We want to start 2 NI wrs. In previous years we started who ever we had or could scrounge from other teams. Now we will have a legit battle for a couple years between 3 highly talents star potential guys. 

3 hours ago, M.O.A.B. said:

Wow, don't know you can read mind. ?

Kind of a sign that this year's draft is a big 'meh' when we can't even really fight about anything ha...

12 minutes ago, Floyd said:

Kind of a sign that this year's draft is a big 'meh' when we can't even really fight about anything ha...

not really how the pundits rank the draft....

10 hours ago, Floyd said:

I really think Walters thought Shepley and Hunter would fall...

Possibly, but I think the opposite is more likely - that Walters was pretty certain the guys he really wanted wouldn't be available by pick #7.  That he had a small group of guys in his "elite" tier, Chapman and a couple of the Olinemen perhaps, and a much bigger group of guys in his "pretty good" tier.

And since he had very little chance of landing an elite player in this draft, why not move down 5 spots, get a pretty good player much like we would have gotten anyways, and get a pick in next year's draft that very realistically could be a top 3 pick?  That way we actually can turn our pick this year into landing an elite player.

It's just a theory, one that makes sense to me.

And after all, otherwise next year we wouldn't get to pick until 9th.

That said, this Bomber draft class fell well outside of what we would consider to be the norm.