The nominees

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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