{"id":644069,"date":"2026-05-03T00:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/644069\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T00:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:31:19","slug":"winnipeg-blue-bombers-have-been-talking-to-diego-pavias-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/644069\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Blue Bombers have been talking to Diego Pavia’s representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two years ago, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers added then-college quarterback Diego Pavia to their negotiation list<\/a>. As Pavia begins to negotiate the NFL as an undrafted free agent with the Ravens, the Blue Bombers remain willing to put their paperwork into action.<\/p>\n

Via John Hodge of 3DownNation.com, the Blue Bombers have talked to Pavia\u2019s reps about potentially playing in Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Conversations] picked up a little bit<\/a>, just educating them [about the CFL],\u201d Winnipeg G.M. Kyle Walters told reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Pavia\u2019s representatives] were fine and receptive . . . but like all guys \u2014 guys with much lesser pedigrees than him \u2014 we all kind of get the same treatment prior to the NFL draft, which is, politely, \u2018We\u2019re focused on the NFL and we\u2019ll see what shakes down.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Although some have trumpeted the notion that Pavia signed a \u201cthree-year deal\u201d with the Ravens, that\u2019s the standard term for UDFA deals as required by the CBA. He could be released at any time. And he could eventually need a landing spot in another league.<\/p>\n

For now, the Blue Bombers are pressing the pause button.<\/p>\n

\u201c[H]e is an interesting prospect, and yes, we\u2019ve been in contact with the agent, but it\u2019s just very early, and now that he signed with Baltimore, I don\u2019t think that it\u2019s much of a conversation moving forward at this point,\u201d Walters said.<\/p>\n

Still, at some point, Winnipeg could be back on Pavia\u2019s porch. And they have no qualms about his habit of speaking his mind.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Coach] Mike [O\u2019Shea] and I, we\u2019re old and we understand that young guys today change,\u201d Walters said. \u201cWe\u2019re not like old men yelling at clouds \u2014 we understand that young men today are different, and we get that. You\u2019re not going to hold against him for being an individual, as long as it\u2019s not a distraction to the team. . . .<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got a big personality and he\u2019d make [the communications staff\u2019s] job harder, I\u2019m sure, if he were to sign, but he\u2019s an interesting young man that competes and is confident in himself, which at that position is not a bad thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a bad thing. But at some point the question is how his game translates to the next level. If it doesn\u2019t work in the NFL, the CFL is willing to give Pavia an opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two years ago, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers added then-college quarterback Diego Pavia to their negotiation list. As Pavia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-644069","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\/644069","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=644069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}