{"id":12275,"date":"2025-07-21T06:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12275\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T06:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:21:12","slug":"winnipeg-blue-bombers-sign-wide-receiver-max-mcleod-bgmsportstrax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12275\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Blue Bombers sign wide receiver Max McLeod \u2013 BGMSportsTrax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgmsportstrax.com\/2024\/08\/22\/winnipeg-blue-bombers-place-linebacker-adam-bighill-on-the-six-game-injured-list\/winnipeg-blue-bombers-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Winnipeg-Blue-Bombers.jpg\" alt=\"Winnipeg Blue Bombers\" title=\"Winnipeg Blue Bombers\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nWinnipeg Blue Bombers<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg Blue Bombers signed wide receiver Max McLeod to the practice squad on Sunday according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/transactions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CFL Transactions<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>Max McLeod is six foot three and weighs 200 pounds. A native of Seattle, Washington, McLeod attended the Denver Broncos rookie minicamp in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Collegiately, McLeod played four seasons at the <a href=\"https:\/\/minesathletics.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/max-mcleod\/15752\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado School of Mines<\/a> (2021-24) making 290 catches for 4,688 yards, 54 touchdowns, five carries for 29 yards, one rushing touchdown, three tackles (3 solos), and one fumble recovery in 56 games for the Mines Orediggers.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, he made 72 catches for 1,078 yards, 10 touchdowns, and one tackle (1 solo) in 11 games. He ranked in the NCAA D-II top-20 in receiving yards (9th, 1,078), yards per game (10th, 98.0), receptions per game (8th, 6.5), and receiving TDs (18th, 10).<\/p>\n<p>He was named a two-time First Team All-NFFCC All-Colorado, three-time First Team All-RMAC, First Team All-American, and Second Team All-American by Don Hansen, AFCA, Associated Press, and D2football.com.<\/p>\n<p>McLeod finished his career as the all-time record holder in yards, second in Mines and RMAC history. He had more career yards than any D-II player since 2008.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Blue Bombers The Winnipeg Blue Bombers signed wide receiver Max McLeod to the practice squad on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82,7504],"class_list":["post-12275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports","tag-winnipeg-blue-bombers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}