{"id":757605,"date":"2026-06-24T07:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/757605\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:31:13","slug":"quarterback-dru-brown-returns-to-winnipeg-in-trade-with-redblacks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/757605\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarterback Dru Brown returns to Winnipeg in trade with Redblacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782286273_77_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Redblacks quarterback Dru Brown (3) and quarterback Jake Maier (13) participate in the team\u2019s training camp in Ottawa on Sunday, May 10, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/ Patrick Doyle<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJun 23, 2026 | 4:33 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>WINNIPEG \u2014 Dru Brown is returning to Winnipeg after the Blue Bombers acquired the quarterback in a trade with the Ottawa Redblacks on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Bombers also received a second-round pick in the 2027 CFL draft and sent their first-round selection in 2027 and a conditional second-round pick in 2028 to Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after Brown lost his starting job in Ottawa to Jake Maier before the season.<\/p>\n<p>Later Tuesday, the Redblacks signed quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson, who won two Grey Cups with the Toronto Argonauts under current Ottawa coach and general manager Ryan Dinwiddie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa Redblacks quarterback Dru Brown (3) and quarterback Jake Maier (13) participate in the team\u2019s training camp in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-757605","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\/757605","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=757605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}