{"id":950941,"date":"2026-10-29T18:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950941\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T18:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:30:21","slug":"blue-bombers-returner-trey-vaval-named-cfls-top-special-teams-player-for-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950941\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bombers returner Trey Vaval named CFL&#8217;s top special-teams player for second time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A historic first for Trey Vaval.<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg Blue Bombers&#8217; electrifying kick returner was named the CFL&#8217;s top special-teams player for a second straight season Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vaval became the first player in league history to capture the honour in two straight years.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old from Blue Springs, Mo., led the league with 2,868 total kick return yards, averaging 13.8 yards per punt return and 24.2 yards per kickoff return.<\/p>\n<p>He had two touchdowns \u2014 an 88-yard kickoff return and a 129-yard missed field goal return.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vaval was also the CFL&#8217;s top rookie in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Vaval earned 133 votes from the Football Reporters of Canada, ahead of Edmonton kicker Vincent Blanchard (94) and Calgary returner Tyreik McAllister (77).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A historic first for Trey Vaval. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers&#8217; electrifying kick returner was named the CFL&#8217;s top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-950941","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\/950941","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=950941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}