{"id":357904,"date":"2025-12-20T15:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/357904\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:50:06","slug":"the-weekly-say-whats-the-play-of-the-2025-cfl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/357904\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekly Say: What’s the play of the 2025 CFL season?"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 This past season offered everything. From close finishes to extraordinary football, there was no shortage of excitement around Canada.<\/p>\n

Among the thousands of plays that highlight every day just how talented CFL players can be, two stand out for their almost-impossible-to-replicate quality.<\/p>\n

BC Lions\u2019 defensive back Robert Carter Jr.<\/a> and Winnipeg Blue Bombers\u2019 receiver Ontaria Wilson<\/a> made the impossible seem, well, possible.<\/p>\n

But which one was even more impressive than the other? To sort that out, CFL.ca asked its writers, what\u2019s THE top play of 2025?<\/p>\n

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WHAT\u2019S THE PLAY OF THE 2025 CFL SEASON?<\/p>\n

Kristina Costabile: Robert Carter Jr.\u2019s pick is easily the best catch\/interception I\u2019ve ever seen. Ontaria\u2019s grab was great, but what Carter Jr. did was outstanding.<\/p>\n

Matthew Cauz: I feel bad having to choose just one, but I\u2019ll take the Carter Jr. interception by the smallest of margins over that ridiculous touchdown catch by Wilson. You can argue that interception was the best display of pure athleticism in 2025 and who doesn\u2019t love hearing that much joy coming from Rod Smith?<\/p>\n

Don Landry: Robert Carter Jr.\u2019s interception is the best of the two to me. Simply put, it\u2019s the most incredible interception I\u2019ve ever seen. Hey, it even inspired me to write a 1,400 word story about it<\/a>. The Wilson catch is a mind-bender, for sure. But it wasn\u2019t really apparent right away. I first thought: \u201cHuh. He caught that? We\u2019ll see.\u201d Then we saw. Sensational. Carter\u2019s interception actually pulled me out of my chair the moment it happened. Had me standing up and taking a step or two toward the TV. \u201cWhat? How?\u201d Robert Carter Jr.\u2019s interception defied logic and likely had the big brains in lab coats scrambling to figure out how it could\u2019ve physically been done. More than that, though, it\u2019s a stunning piece of art that had poets everywhere putting down their pens and muttering \u201cwhy bother anymore?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Jamie Nye: It\u2019s Robert Carter\u2019s interception. Zero debate. It\u2019s the play of the century in the CFL.<\/p>\n

Vicki Hall: I vote the Robert Carter Jr. interception. I\u2019ve covered the CFL for 25 years, and I\u2019ve never seen anything quite like that. Mind-blowing athleticism.<\/p>\n

Patrick Steinberg: I have to go with Robert Carter Jr. The mix of raw athletic ability and anticipation to make a one-handed interception like that is hard to wrap your head around. It resulted in one of the single best defensive plays I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

Marshall Ferguson: Ahh the age old question, what do you value between athleticism and perseverance. Neither of these plays should have happened which is what makes them so wonderful. While Robert Carter Jr. made most of the cells in my body explode when he made the one handed interception, I can\u2019t get over the number of times Wilson should NOT have caught his touchdown against the Elks so it wins the day for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 This past season offered everything. From close finishes to extraordinary football, there was no shortage of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-357904","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\/357904","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=357904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}