{"id":347910,"date":"2025-12-16T01:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/347910\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:25:08","slug":"blue-bombers-keep-key-offensive-piece-ink-brady-oliveira-to-3-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/347910\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bombers keep key offensive piece, ink Brady Oliveira to 3-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>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>He was set to become a free agent in February.<\/p>\n<p>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>He was named the CFL&#8217;s 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 that year.<\/p>\n<p>He had career highs in 2023 with 13 touchdowns (nine rushing, four receiving) and 1,534 rushing yards.<\/p>\n<p>Oliveira was named top Canadian and was an all-CFL selection in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Oliveira was selected by the Blue Bombers in the second round, 14th overall, in the 2019 CFL draft out of North Dakota, and turned in four straight 1,000-yard rushing seasons.<\/p>\n<p>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>Oliveira is scheduled to speak at a media conference Tuesday.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-347910","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347910","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=347910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}