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The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have interviewed Brock Sunderland for the team’s general manager position, per sources.
Sunderland spent the 2025 season with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers as the team’s senior player personnel director. The Ticats asked and received permission to speak with him. He was hired in January after being out of the CFL since November 2021, when he was fired as Edmonton’s GM in a house-cleaning move along with former president Chris Presson and head coach Jaime Elizondo.
The 46-year-old was hired by the Double E in April 2017 after Ed Hervey was let go. He compiled a 32-36 regular season mark, as Edmonton’s record became progressively worse each year: 12-6, 9-9, 8-10 and 3-11. The Great Falls, Mon., native produced a 2-2 mark in the postseason. The former GM was paid out by Edmonton through the 2023 season.
Sunderland has a connection to current Ticats’ head coach, Scott Milanovich. He hired him as Edmonton’s head coach in December 2019 after firing Jason Maas following a loss in the East Final. Milanovich spent one year working alongside Sunderland and resigned from his bench boss role to become the quarterbacks coach with the Indianapolis Colts in January 2021, but never coached a game for the Elks.
The veteran personnel man first joined the CFL as a scout with the Montreal Alouettes in 2004 and was promoted to the team’s director of scouting, a position he held through 2007. He worked in the NFL as a pro scout with the New York Jets from 2008 to 2012. Prior to his stint in the Alberta capital, Sunderland was an assistant general manager with Ottawa for four seasons, helping the Redblacks win the 2016 Grey Cup.
Hamilton’s general manager position has been vacant since Ted Goveia tragically passed away in September.
The Tiger-Cats finished first in the East Division standings in 2025 with an 11-7 record, though the team lost the East Final to the Montreal Alouettes. Bo Levi Mitchell led the CFL with 5,296 passing yards, 36 touchdowns, and 11 interceptions after starting all 18 regular-season games, earning the East Division’s nomination for Most Outstanding Player.
The Tabbies ranked third in net offence, eighth in net defence, and first with a plus-10 turnover differential. The team’s leading rusher was Greg Bell with 1,038 yards, the leading receiver was Kenny Lawler with 1,443 yards, and the leading tackler was Stavros Katsantonis with 69 tackles. Hamilton ranked fourth in attendance with average crowds of 22,858, which was a 3.9 percent increase from the previous year.