Very sad news and far too young. Tough time for the Bighill family as well with Craig and Adam being close with their time together in BC and Winnipeg.

Lions not messing around with VA's future as he was going to head into the final year of his contract. Probably a decent pay raise on his $340,000 base. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/21/b-c-lions-sign-qb-vernon-adams-jr-to-contract-extension-through-2026/ Interesting to see this morning as I was t...

With Tim White re-signing with Hamilton on Sunday, Tevin Jones is the only American receiver so far since the free agency window opened to sign with another team. It leaves a glut of veteran American receivers still on the market with many of them having been injury prone or underperformed to see th...

The 2024 market for receivers is set, Schoen, Hollins and Hatcher all signed for $220,000 to $230,000. Rhymes signed for less. White is good but he isn’t worth a lot more than the other FAs. Definitely a subtle market correction is unfolding after the Elks threw ridiculous receiver money ($300,000+...

A bit surprising the 1 year deals as typically since McEvoy and Campbell have been involved it's almost like the 2 year deal is team standard but I guess that's only when extending their own. And they certainly have made 2-year agreements with recent FAs including McInnis and Couture a year ago. Ma...

And the Lions address their secondary by signing halfback Ciante Evans on yet another one-year contract.

https://www.bclions.com/2024/02/14/lion ... secondary/

All in all a pretty impressive haul the last 24 hours addressing various needs.

Wonder if the Robertson signing is all the Lions will do for the defensive line with Nathan Cherry, Stove Richardson or possibly others pencilled in to replace Baron on the inside. Or do they continue the 1-year signing theme with FAs and hope Sewell has one solid season left in his tank to add more...

There we go: Lions have signed Riders DE Pete Robertson

Saskatchewan has officially signed DB Jalon Edwards-Cooper, so it appears the Lions didn’t use their cap space to match the Riders’ offer. JEC is a big upgrade over Nic Marshall. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/13/official-saskatchewan-roughriders-sign-db-jalon-edwards-cooper/ Absolutely baffling t...

Farhan Lalji says he’s confirmed that Mathieu Betts will sign a futures contract with the Detroit Lions. Ouch! Second straight year we lose our top Canadian and a MOP winner to an NFL team. That is extremely hard to overcome when you are trying to chase down the Bombers. Lions surely must have know...

So while we were all concerned about Montreal and Hamilton wondering if before they made the pitch to Oliviera they didn't already know Betts was going to sign a deal with the Lions, just not the BC Lions? Has me wondering too. And what prompted Baron's release? Yes, slated to make $150,000 this co...

Oh boy! So with Baron's release that's about $350,000 of cap space to spend on FAs? Farhan TSN: I’m hearing that there is a real possibility that Matthieu Betts will agree to a futures contract in the NFL with the Detroit Lions. This is not done yet, he’s not able to sign until next week, but multip...

This development is just another curve ball from McElvoy/Campbell since the negotiation window began. We were told on separate occasions they were happy with Smoke Mizzell and focused on signing their own FAs only to throw a huge multi/year offer at Oliveria. Then Plan B proved to be Stanback. Now i...

Ok, so what are the Lions up to? They have also announced Quincy Mauger and practice roster RB Vance McShane have been released.

With Edwards-Cooper possibly gone and Lee hurt there are not exactly a lot of options in the secondary right now.

For what it's worth PPF graded Baron 3rd in the league last season among all defensive linemen behind Betts and Montreal's Mustafa Johnson, https://www.cfl.ca/2023/11/01/player-grades-powered-by-pff-who-finished-2023-on-top/ BC FAN is right in the Lions signed him for huge dollars heading into the 2...