{"id":678456,"date":"2026-05-18T23:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678456\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:23:11","slug":"blue-bombers-training-camp-day-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678456\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bombers Training Camp | Day 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day after day after day during Winnipeg Blue Bombers training camp one scene has repeated over and over again: receiver Christian Frederickson making at least one \u2018Oh, wow\u2019 reception.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s done extremely well,\u201d began Blue Bombers head coach Mike O\u2019Shea after a holiday Monday practice. \u201cHe\u2019s shown the ability to learn the playbook, No. 1, he catches the ball, he catches tough footballs. He shows good burst. There\u2019s all these things he\u2019s doing very, very well.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time you turn on the film you notice him.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly the kind of consistency every player in camp craves and every coaching staff and scouting personnel covets. And for Frederickson, a big target at 6-3, 309 pounds, it\u2019s exactly the same thing he did through a solid collegiate career at Idaho State.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also this: a year or so ago Frederickson wondered if he\u2019d ever get another shot like this again.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why when he saw the Blue Bombers were holding a free agent camp in Florida over the winter Frederickson decided to fly south, plunk down his $100 entry free do everything possible to open some eyes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou just come with your $100 bill and your cleats and try to show people for a couple hours what you\u2019ve got,\u201d Frederickson said. \u201cIt\u2019s stressful but I was confident with it, too. You have to bet on yourself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a dream. It\u2019s all happened so fast and I\u2019m just so grateful to be out here playing football again. It\u2019s hard to complain about anything \u2014 I\u2019ve heard some comments on the weather, but this is football weather. It\u2019s a blast to be out here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frederickson graduated from Idaho State in 2024 with a degree in Health Care Administration and Business then spent the last year training three to six hours a day, for simply another football opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got into health care administration because I worked at old folk\u2019s home and I felt like the management there treated the residents poorly,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought the best way I could make a difference in the health care realm would be from a leadership position. That\u2019s the direction to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can be a tough job, but it can also be extremely rewarding and that\u2019s what I\u2019m excited about. But that\u2019s waiting for me. I\u2019m in no rush to get out of football right now. I still have the love for it. You get done with college and you want to give the next level a shot and when it doesn\u2019t work out right away you have two options: accept that and start working and providing for your future family or keep chasing this thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI took a couple of weeks off to think about it and at the end of those two weeks I just missed football so much I trained the entire year by myself to make this happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Frederickson\u2019s path to a roster spot with the Blue Bombers won\u2019t be easy with established vets like Nic Demski, Pokey Wilson, Tim White and Tommy Nield. But with Demski and Wilson nursing injuries the last two days, the 24-year-old product of Rigby, Idaho \u2014 his brother Logan is at Montana State, FYI \u2014 has stepped up while working with a mix of offensive starters.<\/p>\n

And, again, he just keeps making catches. And every day he seems to leave the field with a giant grin on his face.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be a deep threat. It\u2019s something I\u2019ve always taken a lot of pride in,\u201d he explained. \u201cI try to turn those 50-50 balls, those jump balls, into 70-30\/80-20 balls. I want to be that guy that in those situations where the quarterback doesn\u2019t know where to go with the ball, he comes to me because he knows I\u2019ll bring it down. Consistency is something I\u2019ve tried to base my game around.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s crazy,\u201d he added. \u201cThe first day we were out here in helmets in snowed. In May. I couldn\u2019t believe it. But everybody was complaining about it and I\u2019m looking around with a smile on my face and I was thinking, \u2018I can\u2019t believe this. I\u2019m in a helmet again.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I wanted was a foot in the door and now that I\u2019m here, I\u2019m still just so excited.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Day after day after day during Winnipeg Blue Bombers training camp one scene has repeated over and over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-678456","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\/678456","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=678456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}