Bombers' West Race: Smith Out, Griffin In as Playoff Pressure Mounts
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers enter Friday’s clash with the Edmonton Elks in the thick of a brutal West Division playoff race. According to 3DownNation, three West teams are vying for the final two postseason spots, and Winnipeg can’t afford a slip-up. The Bombers made one lineup change: Canadian strong
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Jaylen Smith's hip injury is a bigger loss than the depth chart suggests
Smith has made seven starts at strong-side linebacker and recorded 46 total tackles, a 6.6 tackle-per-game average. His replacement, Michael Griffin II, steps in against Edmonton with Smith listed as questionable after missing practice all week. The 24-year-old Canadian was a 2025 second-round pick, so his absence also tests Winnipeg's national ratio.
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Bo Levi Never Forgot What Calgary Did — And the Receipts Are Brutal
Let's talk about the most lopsided trade in modern CFL history that nobody calls lopsided, because the team that lost it won the press conference. February 14, 2023. Calgary ships Bo Levi Mitchell — two-time Grey Cup champ, two-time Most Outstanding Player — to Hamilton for a fourth-round pick and a conditional eighth. That's it. A fourth and an eighth for a franchise quarterback. The Stamps had already made the call back on November 6, 2022, when they yanked Bo in the West Semi against BC at McMahon and handed the keys to Jake Maier. Here's what got whispered around McMahon all winter: this was never a football decision. It was a cap-sheet decision wearing a football costume. Bo was north of $500K. Maier was on a rookie deal. The room knew it. Bo knew it. And when the trade finally drop