{"id":559129,"date":"2026-03-25T06:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559129\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:07:10","slug":"jonathan-moxey-excited-to-lock-down-cornerback-spot-with-winnipeg-blue-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559129\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Moxey excited to lock down cornerback spot with Winnipeg Blue Bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Photo: Bob Butrym\/RFB Sport Photography. Photo edit: 3DownNation.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t a hard decision for Jonathan Moxey to sign a two-year contract with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in CFL free agency last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey showed interest. It feels good to be wanted. It\u2019s not their first time reaching out to me, so I took that into account as well. I like their scheme, I like the attitude that their defence plays with, and they had a need at corner(back),\u201d Moxey told 3DownNation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to go out there, I\u2019m going to compete, and help that defence become an even better defence than they already were because it was already good last year, so hopefully that could help bolster that secondary.\u201d<\/p>\n

The native of West Palm Beach, Fla. started all 18 regular-season games for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at field-side cornerback in 2025, making 40 tackles, three interceptions, and one forced fumble. He knows that Hamilton wanted to retain him in free agency, though it appears the team wasn\u2019t fast enough in its efforts to re-sign him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had their priorities, they had to pay guys what they needed to pay them, so negotiations moved slow,\u201d said Moxey. \u201cAs that happens, the window approaches and when the window approaches, other teams start calling and you\u2019ve gotta make the best business decision first and foremost for you and your family, so that\u2019s what I had to go do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Blue Bombers are known to have veterans help recruit free agents with players like Willie Jefferson, Brady Oliveira, and Nic Demski often reaching out on behalf of the club. Moxey didn\u2019t need a sales pitch to sign, however, instead being attracted by the team\u2019s reputation and defensive scheme.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s (a defensive back)-friendly (scheme) and I think it benefits players that have a lot of snaps. It allows you to be yourself within the scheme of the defence, as long as you\u2019re wise and you\u2019re good at reading routes and understanding concepts in CFL football, then you can have success in that system,\u201d said Moxey.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as you\u2019re yourself and you play within the scheme, then you can find personal success and personal success usually leads to team success. I\u2019m excited about it and I like the way that (defensive coordinator Jordan Younger) talks football. His defensive philosophies from what I\u2019ve heard from everybody have all been positive.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tiger-Cats led the CFL with 44 takeaways in 2025, recording 10 more than the fifth-place Blue Bombers. Moxey believes the unit was successful because of its cohesiveness, something he\u2019s hope to see in 2026 with Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just had so much unity on the defensive side of the ball. It started up front with the pass rush \u2026 and then we had young guys that were flying around tackling, so it made it a lot easier for the secondary to just play more relaxed, knowing that those guys were going to do what they were going to do up front,\u201d said Moxey.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe played with high energy and we took advantage of the opportunities that came our way. I think with Winnipeg, I don\u2019t see it slowing down for them \u2014 just because they finished middle of the pack in one year doesn\u2019t mean that the next year we can\u2019t be right at the top. I\u2019ve seen them in previous years have led the league in sacks and interceptions. It was just one of those years for them where they had injuries on their roster. They\u2019re always a good team, they\u2019re always competitive, so I expect nothing less when I get there and I expect to help them take it up a notch.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Blue Bombers had a tough time at cornerback in 2025. All-CFL selection Tyrell Ford left in free agency, leaving Marquise Bridges, Jamal Parker Jr., and Dexter Lawson Jr. to share starting duties at field-side cornerback. None of these players have been retained for 2026, nor was boundary cornerback Terrell Bonds, who suffered a torn ACL in August.<\/p>\n

Moxey has CFL experience at halfback and strong-side linebacker, though he\u2019s mostly played cornerback. He also claimed he was done \u201cdirty\u201d by the Calgary Stampeders near the end of his tenure with the team two years ago, but declined to elaborate. Regardless, he felt as though playing a variety of spots made him a better player, if even he appears locked in at cornerback for 2026.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old has made 132 defensive tackles, 10 special teams tackles, eight interceptions, one forced fumble, and one sack over 82 career regular-season games. He still believes he\u2019s getting better, even if he\u2019s plateaued as an athlete.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t get faster or stronger or quicker. As you age, so does the body, but my mind has gotten sharper. Playing that many snaps has given me the ability to see so much. You get a feel for the speed of the game, you get a feel for the spacing and the concepts that you can anticipate,\u201d said Moxey.<\/p>\n

\u201cFootball is 90 percent mental, only 10 percent physical, so if I could be smarter than the guy across from me, if I could anticipate what that offensive coordinator might do, then I\u2019m always putting myself in an advantageous position where I can help the defence and help this team win games, so I think that\u2019s how I got better. Basically just playing more football and getting those reps under my belt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moxey has played in Winnipeg many times, always as a visitor. As a member of the home team, he\u2019s now going to have to deal with the deafening noise fans make while opposing offences are on the field. It appears he\u2019s ready for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait to hear it. Every time I was there, it was definitely electric. Whenever you\u2019d be on the sideline, you\u2019re like, \u2018Man, these fans are loud,\u2019 whether it\u2019s that or they\u2019re heckling you while you\u2019re walking through the tunnel, so huge support system,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you can feel it coming right off the bus whenever you\u2019re visiting, so it\u2019ll be a good thing to have those fans on my side this year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Bob Butrym\/RFB Sport Photography. Photo edit: 3DownNation. It wasn\u2019t a hard decision for Jonathan Moxey to sign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[166835,166836,22936,49,2798,48,7028,521,522,520,527,3801,15655,46245,216286,82,55630,43334,167300,22073,7504],"class_list":["post-559129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-3down","tag-3downnation","tag-bombers","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-football","tag-hamilton","tag-hamilton-tiger-cats","tag-jonathan-moxey","tag-moxey","tag-sports","tag-stampeders","tag-ticats","tag-tiger-cats","tag-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg-blue-bombers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559129","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=559129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}