{"id":645351,"date":"2026-05-03T16:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645351\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T16:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:01:09","slug":"forever-buff-back-to-home-country-as-27th-pick-in-cfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645351\/","title":{"rendered":"Forever Buff back to home country as 27th pick in CFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Originally from Saint-Bruno, Quebec, Tristan Marois ventured down to the United States prior to his junior season of high school and enrolled at Clearwater Academy International<\/a> in Florida to gain exposure as a football player. Now, eight years later, a return to Canada is allowing Marois to extend his football career.<\/p>\n

Marois was recently selected 27th overall, in the third-round, of the 2026 Canadian Football League Draft. He was picked by the Calgary Stampeders, rejoining him with fellow forever Buff Mark Vassett<\/a>, who was voted to the 2025 All-CFL Team. Vassett led the league with a 41.7 yard net punting average, a new single-season CFL record.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all of course dream of playing in the NFL, but I am more than happy playing in the CFL; especially being a Canadian national,\u201d Marois said earlier this spring.<\/p>\n

Tristan Marois credits his Saturday performance at the CFL National Combine in late March for boosting his stock in the eyes of the CFL general managers and head coaches. He conducted interviews with much of the league\u2019s teams.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI absolutely have an underdog mentality,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the same time, I hold myself up to everyone else. I can compete against anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

After playing two seasons of varsity and helping Clearwater Academy to an overall record of 16-4, Marois signed with Robert Morris, where he played in 13 games over two seasons competing at the Northeast Conference in the FCS ranks. He was on the field for 496 defensive snaps and 55 special teams plays as a true freshman and sophomore.<\/p>\n

In the winter of 2023, Marois transferred to Colorado as a walk-on addition with three to play two. He saw game action in 22 games with the Buffaloes and played a total of 43 defensive snaps and 233 special teams plays.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the (CFL) teams that interviewed me, asked me why I transferred from Robert Morris, where I was on scholarship and starting, to come to Colorado,\u201d Marois said. \u201cMy first answer was, \u2018I want to compete against the best.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second answer was, \u2018Having better resources.\u2019 So, in terms of gaining weight, having access to a cafeteria, that was something used by me while I was here. I feel I fit the eye-test more now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of his action with the Buffaloes came as a fifth-year senior. He believes he became a \u201cmore violent and more explosive\u201d player under the direction of Colorado\u2019s player development the last three years.<\/p>\n

In addition to Vassett, forever Buff Kabion Ento<\/a> has carved out an impressive career in the Canadian Football League<\/a> the Montreal Alouettes. Ento was awarded the Defensive Player of th Year en route to his team\u2019s win in the 110th Grey Cup in 2023.<\/p>\n

Former Buff defensive lineman Mustafa Johnson<\/a> has been with the Alouettes since 2022. He was a CFL East All-Star in 2023 and has racked up a total of 105 tackles and 17 sacks over 48 games of action in their organization. Johnson is signed on with Montreal through the 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Originally from Saint-Bruno, Quebec, Tristan Marois ventured down to the United States prior to his junior season of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,53134,528,240259,82,218470],"class_list":["post-645351","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-co","tag-colorado-buffaloes","tag-colorado-buffaloes-boulder","tag-sports","tag-tristan-marois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645351","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=645351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}