TORONTO \u2014 A rookie class of 112 first-year players is in the running for the Canadian Football League\u2019s (CFL) Most Outstanding Rookie award.<\/p>\n
The recipient will be crowned at the CFL Awards \u2013 one of the marquee events during the 2025 Grey Cup Festival \u2013 at the Princess Auto Stadium on November 13 with hosts Kate Beirness and Milt Stegall from the CFL ON TSN.<\/p>\n
RELATED The Most Outstanding Rookie is selected by voting members of the Football Reporters of Canada (FRC) and CFL head coaches.<\/p>\n Players must satisfy all the following criteria to be eligible for Most Outstanding Rookie:<\/p>\n Named to the active 45-man roster of a CFL member club for a regular season game during the 2025 season Previous Most Outstanding Rookies include:<\/p>\n 2025 ROOKIE CLASS<\/p>\n \u200b(Name | POS | School\/Team)<\/p>\n BC LIONS<\/p>\n Levi Bell | DL | Texas State EDMONTON ELKS<\/p>\n Cole Snyder | QB | Eastern Michigan CALGARY STAMPEDERS<\/p>\n Damien Alford | WR | Utah SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS<\/p>\n Mario Anderson Jr. | RB | Memphis WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS<\/p>\n Cam Allen | DB | Purdue HAMILTON TIGER-CATS<\/p>\n Philip Ossai | DL | North Alabama TORONTO ARGONAUTS<\/p>\n Tucker Horn | QB | Trinity OTTAWA REDBLACKS<\/p>\n Shakur Brown | DB | Michigan State MONTREAL ALOUETTES<\/p>\n Robert Kennedy III | DB | North Carolina State
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\nAlex Berwick | OL | Western University
\nTravian Blaylock | DB | Wisconsin
\nJacob Bond | FB | Okanagan Sun
\nRobert Carter Jr. | DB | Robert Morris University
\nJackson Findlay | DB | Western University
\nTomasi Laulile | DL | Brigham Young
\nJeremy Lewis | LB | East Carolina
\nIlm Manning | OL | Hawaii
\nSeven McGee | WR | Albany
\nDevin Richardson | LB | Washington State<\/p>\n
\nJerrell Cummings | DB | UBC
\nKenny Logan Jr. | DB | Kansas
\nChelen Garnes | DB | Wake Forest
\nBrock Mogensen | LB | South Dakota
\nAlex Raich | LB | Kansas
\nTyreek Johnson | DL | South Carolina
\nJaxon Morkin | OL | Windsor
\nElijah Alston | DL | Miami
\nMark Evans II | OL | Arkansas Pine Bluff
\nGreg Eiland | OL | Mississippi State
\nOdieu Hiliare | WR | Bowling State Green
\nTomari Fox | DL | North Carolina
\nSilas Hubert | DL | Queen\u2019s<\/p>\n
\nKelechi Anyalebechi | LB | Incarnate Word
\nSheldon Arnold II | DB | Central Florida
\nMorice Blackwell Jr. | LB | Texas
\nLudovick Choquette | RB | Long Island-Post
\nNicky Farinaccio | LB | Montreal
\nChris Fortin | OL | Connecticut
\nJaydon Grant | DB | Oregon St.
\nKaylon Horton | WR | North Texas
\nVyshonne Janusas | WR | Guelph
\nAnthony Johnson | DB | Virginia
\nJosh Love | QB | San Jose St
\nJason MacGougan | ST | Wilfrid Laurier
\nFraser Masin | P | Mississippi
\nPreston Nichols | OL | Purdue
\nShaun Peterson Jr. | LB | Central Florida
\nDolani Robinson | DB | Regina
\nJackson Sombach | DB | Regina
\nMark Vassett | ST | Colorado
\nQuincy Vaughn | QB | North Dakota<\/p>\n
\nPayton Collins | OL | Eastern Kentucky
\nJoe Couch | P | Ouachita Baptist
\nD\u2019Sean Mimbs | WR | Regina
\nMorgen Runge | FB | Alberta
\nAli Saad | DT | Bowling Green State
\nDarius Washington | OL | Florida State
\nJesse Mirco | P | Vanderbilt<\/p>\n
\nChase Artopoeus | QB | Chattanooga
\nMatthew Peterson | RB | Alberta
\nTrey Vaval | DB | Minnesota State Mankato
\nJaiden Woodbey | DB | Boston College
\nEthan Ball | DB | Calgary
\nConnor Shay | LB | Wyoming
\nJay Person | DL | Chattanooga
\nJaylen Smith | LB | North Texas
\nIan Leroux | LS | Laval
\nLane Novak | LB | Saskatchewan
\nJoey Corcoran | WR | New Hampshire
\nCollin Kornelson | DL | Manitoba<\/p>\n
\nPhillip Brooks | WR | Kansas Sate
\nZamari Walton | DB | Mississippi
\nBraxton Hill | LB | Montana
\nTy Anderson | DL | Alberta
\nIsaiah Bagnah | DL | Brigham Young
\nMack Bannatyne | DB | Alberta
\nRonan Horrall | DB | UBC
\nArvin Hosseini | OL | UBC
\nDevin Veresuk | LB | Windsor
\nKyler Fisher | LB | Iowa<\/p>\n
\nDelonte Hood | DB | Peru State College
\nDerek Slywka | DB | Ithaca College
\nMiyan Williams | RB | Ohio State
\nStephen Smith | LB | Regina Thunder Jrs
\nAaron Casey | LB | Indiana
\nSage Doxtater | OL | New Mexico State
\nAnim Dankwah | OL | Howard
\nHampton Ergle | OL | East Carolina
\nRicky Correia | DL | California
\nDorian Anderson | WR | Southeast Missouri State
\nDa\u2019Marcus Johnson | DL | Eastern Washington
\nGreg Reaves | DL | South Florida
\nJeremiah Ojo | DL | Montreal<\/p>\n
\nEric Cumberbatch | DB | Ottawa
\nKing Ambers | DB | Texas A&M Commerce
\nJayden Griffiths | LB | Wilfrid Laurier
\nParker Moorer | OL | East Carolina
\nSam Carson | OL | Louisiana at Monroe
\nMuftah Ageli | DL | Northwestern Oklahoma State
\nKeelan White | WR | Montana
\nChase McGowan | DL | Delaware<\/p>\n
\nNate Beauchemin | DB | Calgary
\nDon Callis | DB | Troy
\nKori Roberson Jr. | DL | Southern Methodist
\nM.J. Sherman | DL | Nebraska
\nGabriel Lessard | LB | Montreal
\nRiley MacLeod | LB | Western
\nDes Holmes | OL | Arizona State
\nTiger Shanks | OL | UNLV
\nKaseem Ferdinand | WR | Carleton
\nHakeem Harris | WR | Davenport University
\nTravis Theis | RB | South Dakota<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 A rookie class of 112 first-year players is in the running for the Canadian Football League\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-200635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200635","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=200635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}