{"id":618229,"date":"2026-04-21T06:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/618229\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T06:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:15:09","slug":"three-time-grey-cup-champion-adam-bighill-retires-with-blue-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/618229\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-time Grey Cup champion Adam Bighill retires with Blue Bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linebacker Adam Bighill, a three-time Grey Cup champion and three-time CFL outstanding defensive player, is retiring after 13 seasons in the league.<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg Blue Bombers announced Monday that they signed the six-time CFL all star to a one-day contract so he could retire as a member of the club where he spent six seasons and won two championships.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old Bighill is sixth all-time in the CFL with 951 defensive tackles. He also had 72 special-teams tackles, 50 sacks, 15 interceptions, 14 forced fumbles and a touchdown over 199 career games with B.C., Winnipeg and Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>Bighill, from Montesano, Wash., turned pro with B.C. in 2011 after playing college football with Central Washington. He helped the Lions win the Grey Cup in his rookie season.<\/p>\n<p>He won his first outstanding defensive player with the Lions in 2015 when he had a career-high 121 defensive tackles.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have signed Adam Bighill to a one-day contract so he can officially retire as a Winnipeg Blue Bomber.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats, and thanks for everything, Adam.<\/p>\n<p>????\ufe0f \u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dOiIjFsctC\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/dOiIjFsctC<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ForTheW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ForTheW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xPube0KIs6\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xPube0KIs6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Winnipeg Blue Bombers (@Wpg_BlueBombers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wpg_BlueBombers\/status\/2046296065389764833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 20, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>After a stint with the NFL\u2019s New Orleans Saints in 2017, Bighill joined the Blue Bombers in 2018 and won his second outstanding defensive player award that season.<\/p>\n<p>He helped the Bombers win Grey Cup titles in 2019 and 2021, winning his third top defender award in the latter season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bighill, who lives in Winnipeg with his family, ranks second all-time in Bombers history with 430 defensive tackles, behind Greg Battle (587).<\/p>\n<p>The Bombers said Bighill is expected to speak at a press conference Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linebacker Adam Bighill, a three-time Grey Cup champion and three-time CFL outstanding defensive player, is retiring after 13&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-618229","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\/618229","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=618229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}