{"id":618409,"date":"2026-04-21T08:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/618409\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:18:17","slug":"adam-bighill-signs-one-day-contract-to-retire-as-a-blue-bomber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/618409\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Bighill signs one-day contract to retire as a Blue Bomber"},"content":{"rendered":"

WINNIPEG \u2013 The Winnipeg Blue Bombers announced on Monday the signing of Adam Bighill<\/a> to a one-day contract so he can officially retire as a member of the football club.<\/p>\n

Bighill, 37, spent six of his 13 Canadian Football League seasons with the Blue Bombers (2018-24) and played his final game as a member of the Calgary Stampeders last year.<\/p>\n

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Bighill was part of two Grey Cup championship teams in Winnipeg, winning in 2019 and 2021. Ninety-four of his career 199 regular season games were with the Blue Bombers. He also appeared in 99 games as a member of the BC Lions (2011-16) and six last season with the Stampeders while spending parts of 2017-18 with the New Orleans Saints.<\/p>\n

A dominant force on the field at the middle linebacker position and a vocal leader in the locker room, Bighill was named to the All-CFL team six times, including in 2018 and 2021 with the Blue Bombers and was the CFL\u2019s Most Outstanding Defensive Player three times, twice with Winnipeg in 2018 and 2021.<\/p>\n

Bighill was named the Blue Bombers Most Outstanding Player in 2018 and the club\u2019s Most Outstanding Defensive Player in 2018 and 2021. He ranks second all-time in franchise history in defensive tackles with 430 behind Greg Battle (587) and sixth on the CFL\u2019s career tackles list with 951.<\/p>\n

After an outstanding collegiate career at Central Washington, Bighill first turned pro with the Lions in 2011 and was part of BC\u2019s Grey Cup championship team that season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 The Winnipeg Blue Bombers announced on Monday the signing of Adam Bighill to a one-day contract…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-618409","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\/618409","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=618409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}