TORONTO – The CFL’s free-agency course of opened with fairly a bang Sunday.
The CFL negotiation window — the time when groups can contact pending free brokers — opened at midday ET on Sunday. And roughly 16 minutes in, TSN was reporting that American defensive again Jonathan Moxie had agreed to phrases with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Beginning on Sunday, groups can contact and make binding, registered and non-retractable affords to pending free brokers. The window closes subsequent Sunday, after which present groups have a 48-hour interval to talk with their very own pending free brokers.
Earlier than free company formally opens Feb. 10, gamers have the correct to simply accept any provide made to them. In the event that they decide to not settle for any, they’ll change into free brokers and former binding affords will not be legitimate.
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Different agreements reported Sunday included:
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– Winnipeg additionally reaching two-year offers with Canadian receiver Tommy Nield and American offensive lineman Jarrell Broxton.
– Edmonton coming to phrases with offensive linemen Coulter Woodmansey and Brendan Bordner, defensive lineman Malik Carney and quarterback Taylor Powell. Woodmansey is Canadian, the opposite three are People. In keeping with TSN. Carney’s deal is value $270,000 yearly.
– Ottawa agreeing to phrases with American operating again Greg Bell, who ran for a career-high 1,038 yards final season with Hamilton, and returner James Letcher Jr., one other American who spent final season with Montreal.
One participant drawing a lot curiosity Sunday was American receiver Ayden Eberhardt. The 27-year-old set profession highs final yr for catches (45), yards (863) and TDs (4) with the B.C. Lions.
Eberhart’s 19.2-yard common per catch was second-highest within the CFL behind Calgary’s Damien Alford (20.4). Alford, 24, of Montreal, signed with the NFL’s New Orleans Saints this low season.
Three groups have been reportedly additionally thinking about veteran DB Demerio Houston. The 29-year-old appeared in 5 video games final yr with Winnipeg however has 14 profession interceptions in 50 regular-season contests with the Bombers and Calgary.
Earlier than the window opened, a league supply advised The Canadian Press that Edmonton had restructured American defensive again Chelen Garnes’s rookie contract. The Elks redid his second yr (2026) and prolonged Garnes by means of 2027, with the brand new deal being value $200,000 in exhausting cash with a most worth of $210,000.
Garnes had 62 tackles and an interception final yr and was Edmonton’s nominee for the CFL’s excellent rookie award. The supply spoke on the situation of anonymity as Edmonton hadn’t introduced the transfer.
Additionally, the Gray Cup-champion Saskatchewan Roughriders signed American operating again A.J. Ouellette — who was a pending free agent — to a one-year extension. The five-foot-eight, 208-pound Ouellette was the CFL’s second-leading rusher final season with 1,222 yards and a team-high 9 TDs.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Feb. 1, 2026.
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