CFL Combine Week - That's a Werap

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CFL Combine Week - That's a Wrap

EDMONTON — Kyle Walters and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers draft gurus came to the Canadian Football League Combine this week seeking some answers to some compelling questions.

They got that and then some. Yet now the real homework begins in the weeks ahead in advance of the CFL Draft on April 28th.

With that in mind — and as the CFL Combine wrapped up early Sunday afternoon — here are some key takeaways from Walters, the Blue Bombers GM...

-HOW THE CFL COMBINE IMPACTS THE DRAFT BOARD

Not all of the CFL's top 2026 Draft prospects were gathered in Edmonton. The list of the missing includes those bound for the NFL and those who relied on the Pro Days at their own colleges. The NFL Draft goes April 23-25th and what happens then — plus in the free-agent signing frenzy that follows which sees players signed for camps — clearly impacts what CFL teams will do with their draft a couple days later.

"You can argue that this clears it up, but it could also be said it makes the logjam murkier, too. There's a lot of information and that's all this is — you gather the information and then you take a deep breath. There's another month to sort through everything.

"You watch the combine film, dig up all the information on the guys that are NFL slam dunks or maybe those that you're not sure will stick there," Walters offered. "Then it's about ranking the players within their groups and ranking the defensive players, the offensive players and then the overall group. This week was a really good information-gathering session, for sure.

"Some players certainly helped themselves this weekend. Some players that you see of film that were pretty good football players you go, yeah, the numbers here confirm that. Then there are others who for whatever reasons didn't have success statistically and then you see them and say, 'Huh, that player looks like a CFL player' and it forces you to go dig a little bit deeper to ask about what happened in university. It's an interesting process sifting through that."

More on Combine Week here...

https://www.bluebombers.com/2026/03/29/cfl-combine-week-thats-a-wrap/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQ3fEZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFUWlJGZVpZbWJkbnN2ejhOc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHrPzJBOwGeUY-A9hqRIs7RbpD4DUQdhbHfUPgoSpvp7KyRQ6DKKqBmaJRGwy_aem_xK-UmYowYi8Ph31oUd9eWQ