{"id":636114,"date":"2026-04-29T09:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636114\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:39:21","slug":"blue-bombers-trade-up-to-select-dante-daniels-in-cfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636114\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bombers trade up to select Dante Daniels in CFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Winnipeg Blue Bombers didn&#8217;t want to miss the chance to add to their offence after trading up early in the CFL Canadian Draft on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Moving up to the 10th pick, the first pick in the second round, Winnipeg selected North Carolina State University tight end Dante Daniels. <\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg sent the Ottawa Redblacks the 13th-overall pick and a second-round pick in 2027 in order to move up.<\/p>\n<p>The Windsor, Ont., native has played the last two seasons with the Wolfpack, making seven receptions for 74 yards and a touchdown in 2025. He was mainly used as a blocking tight end. <\/p>\n<p>In the first round, the Blue Bombers selected Wake Forest defensive lineman Nuer Gatkuoth with the fourth overall pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Blue Bombers didn&#8217;t want to miss the chance to add to their offence after trading up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-636114","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\/636114","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=636114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}