Bombers Activate Wilson, Griffin II; Womack to PR, Smith to Reserve
Winnipeg’s Week 18 depth chart is a roster-health reset. Ontaria Wilson returns from a two-game hand injury and immediately slots back into the starting receiver group. His 56 catches, 739 yards, and five touchdowns over 12 games rank third on the club behind Tim White and Nic Demski, so his activat
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Griffin's Return Quietly Costs Winnipeg a National Starter
Michael Griffin II (American) reclaims the SAM linebacker job after six games out, which pushes Canadian Jaylen Smith to the reserve roster with a hip injury — Smith was the ratio patch for those six weeks. Griffin's 35 defensive tackles in a partial season is elite per-game production, but the real transaction is the national spot the Bombers now have to backfill elsewhere in the lineup. Smith being listed questionable before the move suggests this was injury-forced, not a clean tactical swap.
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Ottawa's 0-15 Season Wasn't Bad Luck — It Was a Two-Year Cover-Up
Everybody's blaming Bob Dyce. Wrong guy. The rot in Ottawa starts in the GM's office, and it started in January 2024 when Shawn Burke shipped a third-round pick to Winnipeg for Dru Brown — then let ownership hand the kid an extension before he'd won a meaningful game. Here's what the building knew: Dyce was lukewarm on Brown. He wanted to keep Jeremiah Masoli and draft a quarterback. Burke overruled him. By training camp, you had a head coach calling plays he didn't believe in for a QB who knew it. That 4-14 season wasn't a surprise inside the facility — it was the plan failing out loud. Then 2025. Masoli gone. Brown hurt by Week 4. And instead of a reset, OSEG doubled down — kept Burke, kept Dyce, kept the same offensive staff. Players noticed. By August, veterans were quietly telling a