Broxton’s Costly Absence and Oliveira’s Snub Stoke Bombers’ Locker-Room Friction

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Jarell Broxton’s knee injury doesn’t just rip a hole in Winnipeg’s offensive line — it thrusts a high-priced free-agent signing under an uncomfortable microscope. Broxton, inked to a two-year deal in February that made him one of the CFL’s highest-paid offensive linemen, was supposed to anchor the r

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You didn’t hear this from me, but there are a few people in that building who were side-eyeing the Jarell Broxton deal the moment the ink dried back in February. Two years, pushing $330K in hard money—making him one of the league’s highest-paid tackles—after watching him walk away from B.C. on a career year at 32? That’s not a Kyle Walters move; that’s a panic buy after losing Dejzon Walker to retirement and watching the market thin out. Whispers around the facility say the medicals weren’t spotless even then, and now, seven games in, Broxton is already on the six-game injured list (because it