{"id":756973,"date":"2026-06-24T00:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756973\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:32:09","slug":"redblacks-acquire-a-pair-of-draft-picks-for-dru-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756973\/","title":{"rendered":"REDBLACKS acquire a pair of draft picks for Dru Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced today that the club has acquired a pair of draft picks from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in exchange for American quarterback Dru Brown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to thank Dru for his contributions to our football club and the Ottawa community over his time here and we wish him all the best in the future,\u201d said Shawn Burke, Vice President of Football Operations of the Ottawa REDBLACKS.<\/p>\n<p>Trade Details:<\/p>\n<p>To Ottawa:<br \/>Winnipeg\u2019s first round selection in the 2027 CFL Canadian Draft<br \/>Winnipeg\u2019s second round selection in the 2028 CFL Canadian Draft (conditional)<\/p>\n<p>To Winnipeg:<br \/>AMER \u2014 QB \u2014 Dru Brown<br \/>Winnipeg\u2019s second round selection in the 2027 CFL Canadian Draft*<\/p>\n<p>*Ottawa acquired Winnipeg\u2019s 2027 second round pick in a draft day trade this past April.<\/p>\n<p>Le ROUGE et NOIR d\u2019Ottawa a annonc\u00e9 aujourd\u2019hui que le club a acquis deux choix au rep\u00eachage des Blue Bombers de Winnipeg en \u00e9change du quart-arri\u00e8re am\u00e9ricain Dru Brown.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab Nous tenons \u00e0 remercier Dru pour sa contribution \u00e0 notre club de football et \u00e0 la communaut\u00e9 d\u2019Ottawa tout au long de son passage parmi nous, et nous lui souhaitons bonne chance \u00e0 Winnipeg \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Shawn Burke, vice-pr\u00e9sident des op\u00e9rations football du ROUGE et NOIR d\u2019Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9tails de l\u2019\u00e9change :<\/p>\n<p>\u00c0 Ottawa :<br \/>Le choix de premi\u00e8re ronde de Winnipeg lors du rep\u00eachage canadien de la LCF 2027<br \/>Le choix de deuxi\u00e8me ronde de Winnipeg lors du rep\u00eachage canadien de la LCF 2028 (conditionnel)<\/p>\n<p>\u00c0 Winnipeg :<br \/>AM\u00c9R \u2014 QA \u2014 Dru Brown<br \/>Le choix de deuxi\u00e8me tour de Winnipeg au rep\u00eachage canadien de la LCF de 2027*<\/p>\n<p>*Ottawa a acquis le choix de deuxi\u00e8me tour de Winnipeg pour 2027 lors d\u2019un \u00e9change effectu\u00e9 le jour du rep\u00eachage en avril dernier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced today that the club has acquired a pair of draft picks from the Winnipeg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-756973","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\/756973","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=756973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}