Unofficial list of FAs out on 3down.

Not a ton of guys I'd want back really.

Dru, Gabe Wallace, MCI, Cam Allen, Griffin,

Maybe for the right price, Sheahan, Clercius

Hallet is good on teams

Tim White played well but is $$$

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Winnipeg Blue Bombers have nearly 30 pending CFL free age...

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers saw their season come to an end on Saturday following a 33-23 loss to the Montreal Alouettes in the East Final. The team’s most high-profile pending free agent is franchise q

Quarterback

Dru Brown (A)
Zach Collaros (A)

Running back

None

Fullback

Michael Chris-Ike (N)

Receiver

Kevens Clercius (N)
Gavin Cobb (N)
Tim White (A)

Offensive line

Stanley Bryant (A)
Patrick Neufeld (N)
Micah Vanterpool (A)
Gabe Wallace (N)

Defensive line

Willie Jefferson (A)
Kydran Jenkins (A)
Thiadric Hansen (G)
Matt Jaworski (A)
Tanner Schmekel (N)

Linebacker

Michael Ayers (A)
Tony Jones (A)
Jovan Santos-Knox (A)
Kyrie Wilson (A)
Jaiden Woodbey (A)

Defensive back

Cam Allen (A)
Michael Griffin II (A)
Nick Hallett (N)
Jake Kelly (N)
Deatrick Nichols (A)

Specialists

Jamieson Sheahan (G)

I'm wondering if Collaros would stay on as QB Coach under Condell and then take over in a year or two if he does well....

On 2026-11-09 at 11:48 PM, SpeedFlex27 said:

So, Collaros retires & we must sign Dru Brown at the "right price"? WTH is the right price? You'd actually let Dru go to FA for the "wrong price"?? We'd be cooked. Like Ottawa. Back in the QB wilderness of 2013 after Buck retired.

Are you signing Dru Brown for Collaros money?

1 minute ago, M.O.A.B. said:

Are you signing Dru Brown for Collaros money?

I don't know what the new market is paying. If Kelly is getting a million then I'm sure Brown being a veteran would want $6-700,000. Collaros may also want a million but may be content with $750-800 grand a season. The number I'm throwing out are just wild guesses.

1 hour ago, rebusrankin said:

Mistake number one of the off-season. MOS in the Winnipeg Free Press:

"O’Shea confirmed offensive co-ordinator Tommy Condell will return next season, despite the offence finishing seventh in the CFL in scoring at 26.5 points per game."

2 hours ago, bearpants said:

I'm not writing off Daniels yet... because if does develop into the player management thinks he is... he'll be an absolute beast... but we certainly didn't see if in year one

I'm not either but this past season?

3 hours ago, rebusrankin said:

Mistake number one of the off-season. MOS in the Winnipeg Free Press:

"O’Shea confirmed offensive co-ordinator Tommy Condell will return next season, despite the offence finishing seventh in the CFL in scoring at 26.5 points per game."

If I'm Dru brown, any internal offensive FA, and any league FA QB/WR, I wouldn't come here for anything short of insane money.

If Walters and Wade see that and don't immediatly about face on Mos, we are majorly screwed.

Club could at least buy us all dinner if they were gonna &*^& us like that.

4 hours ago, bearpants said:

I'm not writing off Daniels yet... because if does develop into the player management thinks he is... he'll be an absolute beast... but we certainly didn't see if in year one

With the right coaching and utilization.......maybe.

16 minutes ago, Tracker said:

With the right coaching and utilization.......maybe.

He needs to have a big turnaround, imo, just to be a serviceable CFL player. He's worse at everything than MCI, without any athleticism to speak of. Daniels has a decent set of hands, but he's fumble-prone. He's decent at blocking guys who are significantly smaller than he is. Tbh, we'd be better off dressing Corcoran.

Given that we're keeping Tommy, I agree with @wbbfan , overpays or we don't land anybody of value. I suspect we see a further decline in 2027, although given 8 teams make the playoffs, we may be ok there.

59 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

If I'm Dru brown, any internal offensive FA, and any league FA QB/WR, I wouldn't come here for anything short of insane money.

Why is that?

5 hours ago, rebusrankin said:

Mistake number one of the off-season. MOS in the Winnipeg Free Press:

"O’Shea confirmed offensive co-ordinator Tommy Condell will return next season, despite the offence finishing seventh in the CFL in scoring at 26.5 points per game."

Well at this point trade Brady O and might as well let Dru go in FA. Trade BO for some help on D since we will criminally under utilized him AGAIN next year with this Condell in charge. We can also save money at the QB position since we can play Perkins or anyone else at all who can easily match Zach C numbers of throwing for 80 yards thru 3 quarters.

Trade + sign guys on the D and hope to hell that they can keep us in each game all while Tommy C's pitifully puts up only a few scores is our only way moving forward.

OR maybe get an OC with a clue?

1 hour ago, ShyGuy said:

Why is that?

mos saying tc will be back as oc next year. Tc is bad enough, mos is the common thread between the last 3 putrid oc seasons. If one of the two was out you’d have reason to believe things would improve. with both back, no chance.

On 2026-11-10 at 1:51 PM, GCn20 said:

Absolutely. Glad to eat crow on that one. What I am saying is that just because a Singer came off the PR and excelled doesn't mean we have hidden studs all through our backups and PR. Wish it were true but that just doesn't happen for any team ever. We need skill added to our team, or are you of the belief that we had enough talent to win the Grey Cup this year?

What it shows is Osh creates a plan & won't deviate. They wanted 3 Canadian receivers & they stuck by that like glue putting Singer on the PR where he rotted away until Cobb got hurt. Then as they had no choice, they activated him & he quickly became our best receiver. There was no adaptation. No change of plan. No doing "what's best for the team". It was the same BS we have all seen for the entire time Osh has been here. I'm hoping Ottawa throws gobs of money at Osh after the GC so he leaves.

34 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

mos saying tc will be back as oc next year. Tc is bad enough, mos is the common thread between the last 3 putrid oc seasons. If one of the two was out you’d have reason to believe things would improve. with both back, no chance.

Yeah..I been saying since tge 5 yr slide started there has been 1 common denominator...Osh..and him staying it is gonna just be more of the same

Can see it already in his comments so far

And is there truth to this rumbling I have heard in a few spots we were talking contract with ZC during season...but they kinda broke off when the pest got his big deal.. and ZC was seeking more than original talks..and him getting hurt again late in season badically halted it altogether for rest of season??

8 hours ago, bearpants said:

I think, defensively... we should be able to go with 3 Canadians next year... between a rotation of Smith, Shay, Kramdi, Lawson, Nuer, and maybe another draft pick, or someone like Stuart taking another step forward... no reason we can't have good quality Canadians on the field... without playing Kelly...

I’m hoping we use more of our Canadians on D in 2027. Jones at MLB with Shay at WlB and Smith at SLB would be ideal for me. Not sure why Shay wasn’t used in some games on starting D, maybe they only view him as a MLB? Won’t be happy if KWilson comes back especially at MLB.

5 minutes ago, wpgallday1960 said:

I’m hoping we use more of our Canadians on D in 2027. Jones at MLB with Shay at WlB and Smith at SLB would be ideal for me. Not sure why Shay wasn’t used in some games on starting D, maybe they only view him as a MLB? Won’t be happy if KWilson comes back especially at MLB.

I don’t really want either Jones or Wilson back to be honest. Wilson had some great years but he’s just past it unfortunately.

Jones has probably peaked at average. He was a decent stopgap after Biggie but they can do better. Can’t stick with mediocrity at that position.

19 minutes ago, JohnnyAbonny said:

I don’t really want either Jones or Wilson back to be honest. Wilson had some great years but he’s just past it unfortunately.

Jones has probably peaked at average. He was a decent stopgap after Biggie but they can do better. Can’t stick with mediocrity at that position.

I wonder had Jovan Santos Knox had stayed healthy how things would have shaken out at lb.

4 hours ago, wbbfan said:

mos saying tc will be back as oc next year. Tc is bad enough, mos is the common thread between the last 3 putrid oc seasons. If one of the two was out you’d have reason to believe things would improve. with both back, no chance.

If Condell comes back, we are going to be in worse shape next year. I suspect that many of the better players went along with Condell's fumbling to see if it would would work out. It obviously didn't and those same players will be even more disgruntled and Drew Brown would be committing career suicide with Condell as OC. If Brown bails, he will likely get a audition or two, but not after another year like the past one.

@GCn20 I’m not going to criticize you directly because according to you, that’s low brow stuff even though it’s all you ever seem to do to me.

BUT

I would genuinely like to know why you even choose to engage in conversation here. Your opinions and takes are completely lacking in any level of flexibility and as soon as someone comes with receipts, you try a political level of spin to wash away what is very obviously an error in judgment. On top of all of that, this weird “show me something that proves I’m wrong” approach you have when every single one of us here deals in some level of rational inference, assumption or otherwise … I just don’t get it. You’re clearly standing tall on your opinions so like … what’s the point? Everything you’ve seen and we’ve seen would SUGGEST your takes are woefully incorrect, but without the “proof” that will never exist, you just seem content to stand on this weird pedestal because you can’t be proven wrong.

I think bringing back TC is a mistake, but honestly if they don't fix the o-line I don't think it matters who they hire.

16 minutes ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

I think bringing back TC is a mistake, but honestly if they don't fix the o-line I don't think it matters who they hire.

Bringing back Condell makes me wonder if we have zero interest in bringing back Dru because I cannot imagine why he’d want to work with Condell anymore at this point

12 minutes ago, Mike said:

Bringing back Condell makes me wonder if we have zero interest in bringing back Dru because I cannot imagine why he’d want to work with Condell anymore at this point

I'm not sure why they'd want to Bring Dru back. He's not who we thought he was. There are other mid-tier vet QBs hitting FA that offer some semblance of hope they'll get over the hump. If I had to choose out of the potential FA qbs, my first choice would be Crum.

18 minutes ago, Mike said:

Bringing back Condell makes me wonder if we have zero interest in bringing back Dru because I cannot imagine why he’d want to work with Condell anymore at this point

I can’t imagine why anyone would want to work with Condell anymore.

Outside of O’Shea, of course.

37 minutes ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

I think bringing back TC is a mistake, but honestly if they don't fix the o-line I don't think it matters who they hire.

I’d start by moving Broxton to LT

2 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:

I'm not sure why they'd want to Bring Dru back. He's not who we thought he was. There are other mid-tier vet QBs hitting FA that offer some semblance of hope they'll get over the hump. If I had to choose out of the potential FA qbs, my first choice would be Crum.

Brown literally saved our season from the brink of missing the playoffs, then won a playoff game. Crum's lone achievement in the CFL is still the Crumback game, which was meaningless in the end. Brown was better this year here than Crum has ever been, including this year in his limited action on the best team in the league. And despite Brown having the worst system to work with, one of the worst OLs most of the time, and WRs who couldn't catch a cold in 50/50 situations.

None of the mid-tier QBs, or any other QB that will be available, is going to offer more hope than brown. Most won't offer anything but fool's gold. It's just like the 2009 offseason when we pushed off KG.

If not Brown then who?