{"id":664704,"date":"2026-05-12T15:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/664704\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:49:11","slug":"blue-bombers-sign-first-round-draft-pick-nuer-gatkuoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/664704\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bombers sign first-round draft pick Nuer Gatkuoth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Winnipeg Blue Bombers announce today the signing of Canadian defensive end Nuer Gatkuoth.<\/p>\n<p>Gatkuoth (6-4, 227, Wake Forest University; born: May 3, 2002, in Edmonton, Alta) was the Blue Bombers first selection, fourth overall, in last month\u2019s CFL Canadian Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Gatkuoth split his collegiate career between Wake Forest (2025) and Colorado State (2022-24) and with the Demon Deacons last season registered 39 total tackles, 8.5 tackles for loss, six quarterback sacks and one forced fumble in 12 games.<\/p>\n<p>He was also credited with 21 quarterback hurries while being named a finalist for the 2025 Jon Cornish Trophy as the top Canadian player in NCAA football.<\/p>\n<p>He played in 17 games over his two years with the Rams with 68 total tackles, 10.5 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks, one interception and two forced fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>Gatkuoth recently attended rookie minicamp with the Denver Broncos before signing with the Blue Bombers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Blue Bombers announce today the signing of Canadian defensive end Nuer Gatkuoth. Gatkuoth (6-4, 227, Wake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-664704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664704","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=664704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}