{"id":347669,"date":"2025-12-15T22:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/347669\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:54:07","slug":"brady-oliveira-signs-three-year-extension-with-blue-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/347669\/","title":{"rendered":"Brady Oliveira signs three-year extension with Blue Bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WINNIPEG \u2014 The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have signed star running back Brady Oliveira to a three-year contract extension, the CFL club announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was set to become a free agent in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Oliveira, a 28-year-old from Winnipeg, rushed for 1,163 yards and three touchdowns in 2025 and set career highs in receiving with 61 receptions for 546 yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was named the CFL\u2019s outstanding player in 2024 when he ran for 1,353 yards, earning a second straight league rushing title. He ran in three touchdowns and added another through the air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had career highs in 2023 with 13 touchdowns (nine rushing, four receiving) and 1,534 rushing yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Oliveira was named top Canadian and was an All-CFL selection in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Oliveira was selected by the Blue Bombers in the second round, 14th overall, in the 2019 CFL draft out of North Dakota. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has since suited up for 83 games for the club, scoring 27 touchdowns and helping the team win Grey Cup titles in 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Oliveira was scheduled to speak at a media conference Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 15, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2014 The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have signed star running back Brady Oliveira to a three-year contract extension,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,82,75056],"class_list":["post-347669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports","tag-winnipeg-blue-bombers-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-110380"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347669","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=347669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}