With Rookie Camp getting underway Wednesday morning, it's officially time to talk about the 2026 Winnipeg Blue Bombers!

2 hours ago, sweep the leg said:

some thoughts, with the usual caveats about limited reps, one day, etc

• Penner from the Rifles fits in during skelly, rec drills, etc. the problem today was they did a tonne of sts blocking drills and he’s younger and smaller than everybody else and got bullied. He had one rep against Banks that was hard to watch.

• Speaking of Banks, he looked great blocking but just ok as a receiver.

• Both American rbs looked good. Both had some nice runs, and Arnold took a swing pass for 30ish yards in full scrimmage.

• Payton Thorne looked really bad. Held onto the ball for a long time and threw a few picks in skelly.

• Perkins turned the wrong way for a handoff twice on three plays. I can’t say for sure it was his fault, but the coach spoke to him after each one and the following play he’d turn the other way. I wasn’t very impressed by him either.

• Poncius and especially Elsbury looked really good on the ol. Elsbury won every rep I saw. Only time I saw Poncius get beat was when he picked up the wrong guy in 2 v2s.

• On the dl I didn’t see Dixon win a single rep. I thought KMB looked great. He’s small, but always gave the ol trouble.

• Saw two Dante Daniels reps blocking. He got run over by KMB on one, then buried Aaron Smith on the next one.

No 1v1s today for recs, so that sucked. Singer ran a nice corner/post route in skelly, but the qb (Thorne iirc) threw it late and it got knocked out of his hands. Otherwise didn’t really notice any recs standout.

Thanks for the input. I’m sure all of us that can’t be there are starving for any little tidbit we can get.

Hopefully Dixon can get it going… I was hoping he’d make an impact.

Forgot to mention we almost lost Banks today. He crashed into the uprights full speed after running a post route. The noise it made echoed in the stadium. Thankfully he was fine.

Edited 58 minutes ago58 min by sweep the leg

50 minutes ago, sweep the leg said:

Forgot to mention we almost lost Banks today. He crashed into the uprights full speed after running a post route. The noise it made echoed in the stadium. Thankfully he was fine.

No one tell the commissioner about this

I had a leftover day of vacation to use up so I rolled through the stadium today and concentrated on the offense

Bryan Randall appears to have a leg up on the QB2 job, Darryl Hackney looked awful in skelly and throws an ugly ball

Onterrio Smith looks like a total pro out there in the backfield, Ramonce Taylor looked good in limited action but seemed to disappear halfway through practice

Justin Surrency catches everything thrown his way and seems to be a lock to make the team, he even made Roc Carmichael look silly on every rep they matched up for. Antonio Brown can run by everyone on the field but on one rep across the middle, Dwayne Slay lined him up and made him pay for it

Tyson Pencer is a mountain of a man out there and will be a sure-fire ratio breaker at tackle if he keeps this up

We’re going to the Grey Cup