{"id":560956,"date":"2026-03-26T01:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560956\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T01:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:10:13","slug":"former-blue-bombers-quarterback-fan-favourite-chris-streveler-hangs-up-his-jerseys-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560956\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Blue Bombers quarterback, fan favourite Chris Streveler hangs up his jerseys &#8211; Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>It appears fan favourite Chris Streveler has taken his final snap, not only with the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/winnipeg-blue-bombers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Blue Bombers<\/a>, but also as a professional.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>His former teammates alluded to his retirement earlier in the off-season and while there\u2019s been no official announcement from the team or on the CFL transactions page, he hinted he\u2019s calling it quits in a cryptic social media post.<\/p>\n<p>Streveler posted a video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DWSYY8CjbPc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> where he\u2019s hanging up all his jerseys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCreated something special to honour a chapter of my life that\u2019s coming to a close,\u201d he posted. \u201cAll love for the journey. Full video coming later this week.\u201d<\/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\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>Streveler first joined the Bombers in 2018 and signed with the NFL\u2019s Arizona Cardinals in 2020. He was waived after a season and a half with the Cards and also spent time with the Baltimore Ravens, Miami Dolphins, and New York Jets before returning to the Bombers.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Streveler suffered devastating knee injuries the past two seasons and is currently a free agent after not being re-signed by the Bombers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the annual CFL Combine in Edmonton, general manager Kyle Walters and head coach Mike O\u2019Shea both praised his accomplishments during his time with the Bombers.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Sports<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he was out there on the field, what he was willing to do for his teammates would be second to none,\u201d said O\u2019Shea on Wednesday. \u201cIt was also a great reminder to other guys of how much they need to give to this game for their teammates. He was sensational.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Streveler played on a broken leg in the 2019 Grey Cup and won the hearts of Bombers\u2019 fans during the championship parade wearing a fur jacket with no shirt. He\u00a0suited up for four seasons in the blue and gold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was willing to do anything, and it showed,\u201d Walters said. \u201cWinning the football game was the only thing that mattered. And it was obvious and contagious that, that was really, really the only thing that mattered to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size It appears fan favourite Chris Streveler has taken his final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82,7504,2705],"class_list":["post-560956","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","tag-winnipeg-blue-bombers","tag-winnipeg-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560956","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=560956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}