{"id":281743,"date":"2025-11-14T03:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281743\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T03:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:30:12","slug":"bombers-returner-vaval-doubles-down-at-cfl-awards-winning-most-outstanding-special-teams-player-and-rookie-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281743\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombers\u2019 returner Vaval doubles down at CFL Awards, winning Most Outstanding Special Teams Player and Rookie &#8211; Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg Blue Bombers won\u2019t be raising hardware over their heads on Sunday at the Grey Cup, but one of their players is going home with a few awards of his own.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762614923_240_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bombers returner Trey Vaval was the winner of two awards as the CFL honoured its best players Thursday night at Club Regent Casino. Vaval won the Most Outstanding Rookie Award and Most Outstanding Special Teams Player Award after a season in which he had four return touchdowns and became one of the league\u2019s dominant return threats.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">special teams. special plays. special player.<\/p>\n<p>Trey Vaval has won the Most Outstanding Special Teams Player award. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ForTheW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ForTheW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3MnaU58dCl\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/3MnaU58dCl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Winnipeg Blue Bombers (@Wpg_BlueBombers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wpg_BlueBombers\/status\/1989157486411067901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Vaval is the first Bomber to win the special teams honour since Justin Medlock in 2016 and first returner since Keith Stokes in 2004. And he also became the eighth Bomber to be named top rookie, with Dalton Schoen being the last one in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Other award winners Thursday included Riders offensive lineman and former Bomber Jermarcus Hardrick winning\u00a0 the Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman Award.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11522498\/photos-aurora-borealis-november-2025-canada\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763091012_367_John-Perret.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tIN PHOTOS: Northern Lights shine in Canadian skies with more to come\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11522732\/tax-free-savings-account-young-canadians\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763091012_670_cpt104531195-1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tInvest or keep money in cash? 41% of young Canadians opt for latter in TFSA\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BC Lions quarterback Nathan Rourke was another double winner, taking home the Most Outstanding Player Award and Most Outstanding Canadian Award.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MORE HARDWARE FOR THE ROOK. <\/p>\n<p>Trey Vaval has won the Most Outstanding Rookie award. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ForTheW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ForTheW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k5Pepol6T4\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/k5Pepol6T4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Winnipeg Blue Bombers (@Wpg_BlueBombers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wpg_BlueBombers\/status\/1989166389102297411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Winnipeg Blue Bombers won\u2019t be raising hardware over their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,128190,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-281743","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-cfl-awards","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281743","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=281743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}