Bombers Add Hansen, Nouili, Henry to Practice Roster Ahead of Argos Clash

🏷️ Roster/Transactions (10AM) πŸ• September 21, 2026 Β· 10:00 AM πŸ“‘ 3DownNation, CFL.ca, BlueBombers.com

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers made three practice-roster additions Monday, headlined by the return of Global defensive end Thiadric Hansen. Hansen, the second overall pick in the 2019 CFL Global Draft, spent four seasons in Winnipeg and won two Grey Cups before a season-ending Achilles injury in 2022. H

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Bombers poached a 321-pound global OL from Montreal’s practice roster

Nouredin Nouili spent the 2024 and 2025 seasons on Montreal’s practice roster but never dressed for a regular-season game. The 6-foot-3, 321-pound blocker has 25 career college starts at Nebraska and Colorado State, plus NFL exposure with the Saints. Winnipeg is taking a zero-risk look at a division rival’s stashed global asset.

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Two Games for Emergency Groin Surgery? The CFL Just Set the Bar in Hell

Let's talk about Josh Hagerty. Week 15, BC hosting Montreal. Hagerty strikes Liam Talbot twice β€” twice β€” and the Alouettes running back ends up in emergency surgery on his groin. Not "day-to-day." Not "week-to-week." Emergency. Surgery. On a man's groin. The league's answer? Two games. Tied for the second-longest on-field suspension in CFL history. Sit with that. The second-worst thing anyone has ever done on a CFL field buys you a two-week vacation and a fine a practice-roster guy shrugs off at the ATM. Here's what nobody in the league office will say on the record: the discipline matrix isn't a standard, it's a negotiation. The PA grieves everything, the league hedges, and the number that survives is whatever both sides can stomach. Talbot's groin never got a vote. Neither did the trai