2026 CFL Draft - Blue Bomber Selections

[Tecno]

If it was Cline at 13 and Daniels at 20, would it bother some of us less?

That's not the question.  The question is "If it was Daniels at 13 and Cline at 20".  The problem isn't the order, the problem is the trade to 10 (hinders us next season).

Everyone wants to know... was OTT, EDM, TOR going to take Daniels at 10, 11 or 12.  That's the real 64k (er, uh, '27 2RDP) question!  A lot of us think the answer to that is "no!".  3down indicates some teams thought he'd go in 2nd round (not necessarily at 10-12 though), and some teams thought he was going to languish into the 5th round.  If the latter is true, we lost the 27 DP for nothing.

Like that other thread said: maybe KW was the antsy one.  That X video sure looked antsy!  But if being high on Daneils was his conviction and he thought there was a >10% chance he gets sniped, them I'm ok with the move.

[Tecno]

I think they drafted Clercius to block like Bailey but were not happy last year, so I see Dante Daniels as taking that role. As Walters says, Sh#$t kicking blocker, mean mofo.

Problem with that type of player is we may take a lot more holding and blocking-downfield penalties.  It's like always-hold SSK's blockers: they take a lot more of those penalties than we do -- always skirting the line, betting on complacent refs.

"To be able to marry that run with the pass is going to be the key."

Listen to him when he says this.  He's laying it all out telling everyone what our identity is this season.  Daniels gets us closer to this reality.  It's going to be Brady ball with a ton of blockers, and passes when the D doesn't expect it.  This is what was missing last season.

[Tecno]

EDIT: listened to KW, and he spells out it's the legit #2RDP, not the bonus #2 pick, so that answers that.

All the paraphrases of the trade deal say "A 2RDP".  Did we just fool OTT into trading for #19-#20 instead of #10-#18?  That would be sweet.  I'm a lot happier at giving up a #20 instead of a #10.

Though if we make the cup in '26 it all becomes a wash anyhow...

[Tecno]

I'm kind of excited for Gatkuoth as this finally might get us back to cheetah.  Gat in for Lawson along with 3 IMPs on DL, all in pass-rush mode.

Or allowing us to get Griffin more SAM snaps by having 2 (or 3?!) NAT DL.

At worst this 1RDP should be able to do what Kongbo did for us.  Hopefully more.  A lot more.