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ALL eight CFL teams released their nominees on Thursday for this year's Gibson's Finest CFL Player Awards, which will be handed out in Toronto late next month during Grey Cup Week.
Each team's nominees were voted upon by seven local media members and the respective head coach. Players that were selected unanimously are marked below with an asterisk:
Blue Bombers
PLAYER: Chad Simpson
DEFENSIVE: Alex Hall
CANADIAN: Henoc Muamba
OFFENSIVE LINEMAN: Glenn January*
SPECIAL TEAMS: Justin Palardy
ROOKIE: Chris Matthews*
Tiger-Cats
PLAYER: Chris Williams
DEFENSIVE: Rey Williams
CANADIAN: Luca Congi
OFFENSIVE LINEMAN: Tim O'Neill
SPECIAL TEAMS: Chris Williams*
ROOKIE: Josh Bartel
Argonauts
PLAYER: Chad Owens
DEFENSIVE: Marcus Ball
CANADIAN: Andre Durie*
OFFENSIVE LINEMAN: Chris Van Zeyl
SPECIAL TEAMS: Chad Owens*
ROOKIE: Armond Armstead
Alouettes
PLAYER: Anthony Calvillo*
DEFENSIVE: Shea Emry
CANADIAN: Shea Emry
OFFENSIVE LINEMAN: Josh Bourke
SPECIAL TEAMS: Kyries Hebert
ROOKIE: Patrick Lavoie
Lions
PLAYER: Travis Lulay
DEFENSIVE: Adam Bighill*
CANADIAN: Andrew Harris*
OFFENSIVE LINEMAN: Jovan Olafioye
SPECIAL TEAMS: Tim Brown
ROOKIE: Jabar Westerman*
Eskimos
PLAYER: J.C. Sherritt*
DEFENSIVE: J.C. Sherritt*
CANADIAN: Ted Laurent
OFFENSIVE LINEMAN: Orrin Thompson
SPECIAL TEAMS: Grant Shaw
ROOKIE: Shamawd Chambers
Stampeders
PLAYER: Jon Cornish*
DEFENSIVE: Charleston Hughes*
CANADIAN: Jon Cornish*
OFFENSIVE LINEMAN: Dimitri Tsoumpas
SPECIAL TEAMS: Rene Paredes*
ROOKIE: Chris Randle
Roughriders
PLAYER: Weston Dressler*
DEFENSIVE: Tyron Brackenridge
CANADIAN: Dominic Picard
OFFENSIVE LINEMAN: Dominic Picard
SPECIAL TEAMS: Sam Hurl
ROOKIE: Xavier Fulton
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition November 1, 2012 D3
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