After a wonderful career, CFL legend Adam Bighill has signed a one-day contract with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and is set to retire as a member of the blue and gold.<\/p>\n
Per a Winnipeg Blue Bomber press release:<\/p>\n
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers today announce the signing of Adam Bighill 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
Bighill\u00a0was 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 B.C. Lions (2011-16) and six last\u00a0season\u00a0with 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,\u00a0Bighill\u00a0was named a CFL All-Star 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\u00a0was 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,\u00a0Bighill\u00a0first turned pro with the Lions in 2011 and was part of B.C.\u2019s Grey Cup championship team that season.<\/p>\n
Bighill\u00a0and his family continue to live in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a wonderful career, CFL legend Adam Bighill has signed a one-day contract with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-618589","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\/618589","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=618589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}