Bombers hanging on to top pick in Sunday’s Canadian Draft
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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers will hang on to the top pick in Sunday’s Canadian Draft, but are fielding offers for the fourth-overall selection.
“We’ve had a number of offers for both (picks),” GM Joe Mack told reporters at a media session on Wednesday. “The way we have it mapped out right now, we think the two or three players we like best are maybe on a different plateau (than the rest) so I really doubt that we would trade the No. 1 pick. The No. 4 pick, we’ve had a lot of interest in that, and we’re listening to offers.”
Asked if the club had made up its mind on who it would select first overall — a first for the Bombers since 1975 — Mack said they were ‘pretty close.’
The names most often bandied about are Rice University offensive lineman Scott Mitchell, Calgary receiver Anthony Parker and St. Francis Xavier linebacker Henoc Muamba.
Rounding out the CFL Scouting Bureau’s Top 10 are: OL Phillip Blake (Baylor, ranked 4th); OL Tyler Holmes (Tulsa, 5th); DL Vaughn Martin (San Diego Chargers, 6th); WR Nathan Coehoorn (Calgary, 7th); K Hugh O’Neill (Alberta, 8th); WR Marco Iannuzzi (Harvard, 9th) and OL Moe Petrus (Connecticut, 10th).
Blake, Holmes and Petrus are all heading back to their schools this football season.
The Bombers are hoping to use their two early picks — if they don’t move the fourth overall — to stock up their overall Canadian talent.
“You’re always looking for talent across the board, import or non-import,” Mack said. “I think we have to be conscious of the fact we have to get some younger Canadian talents in here. We have to continue to get some young Canadian offensive linemen in the pipeline. We have Chris Greaves and (Chris) Kowalczuk we think will be good players for us, but we have to continue to upgrade there with regards to our young talent. And on the defensive side of the ball, Doug Brown’s played for us but obviously Doug’s 36 or 37 so we have to be conscious of that.”
ed.tait@freepress.mb.ca
