{"id":630862,"date":"2026-04-27T00:46:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630862\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T00:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:46:31","slug":"theres-already-a-cfl-team-with-rights-to-diego-pavia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630862\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s already a CFL team with rights to Diego Pavia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diego Pavia is still hoping to have a long NFL career ahead of him.<\/p>\n<p>But after going undrafted, the Vanderbilt QB and Heisman finalist has an alternate path in Canada if he wants it.<\/p>\n<p>In the Canadian Football League, teams often acquire negotiation rights to players who aren&#8217;t yet in the CFL. Whichever team holds a player&#8217;s negotiating rights is the one that has the first chance to sign him if he decides to come to Canada and play.<\/p>\n<p>Pavia&#8217;s negotiating rights are already held in the CFL &#8212; by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Diego Pavia is currently on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wpg_BlueBombers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@Wpg_BlueBombers<\/a> negotiation list. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#CFL<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#NFL<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bombers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#Bombers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CFL News (@CFL_News) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CFL_News\/status\/2048403096447922232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/news\/diego-pavia-shedeur-sanders-nfl-qb-problem-tim-tebow\/660f49e91c67c327bb1e69aa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Diego Pavia, Shedeur Sanders and an NFL QB problem that goes back to Tim Tebow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t mean anything about Pavia&#8217;s actual decision-making. He likely will do whatever he can to make it work in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>But for those Pavia fans who are wondering what his alternate paths might look like, this is relevant.<\/p>\n<p>If he chose to take a chance on a different league, the CFL and UFL would likely be his two options. And if he chose Canada, Winnipeg seemingly would take a crack at adding him.<\/p>\n<p>The CFL wouldn&#8217;t be a career-ruining move for Pavia. If he stood out there, he could potentially come to the NFL &#8212; something that Doug Flutie did.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It also wouldn&#8217;t be awful for Pavia to go to Canada and stay there as a strong performer.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that Pavia probably isn&#8217;t going to the CFL. But if he did, it&#8217;d seemingly be to Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL Draft news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diego Pavia is still hoping to have a long NFL career ahead of him. But after going undrafted,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-630862","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\/630862","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=630862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}