{"id":610805,"date":"2026-04-28T07:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610805\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:17:12","slug":"a-cfl-team-called-dibs-on-new-packers-qb-kyron-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610805\/","title":{"rendered":"A CFL team called dibs on new Packers\u2019 QB Kyron Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Back on January 28th, the Montreal Alouettes added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/negotiation-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia Tech quarterback Kyron Drones to their negotiation list<\/a>, which is the process that the Canadian Football League has to allocate American players to its teams. For those unaware, each CFL team can place up to 45 players on their negotiation list, giving them \u201cdibs\u201d on these players if they ever become available to sign in the league. These lists had always been behind the scenes until July of 2025, when the league finally made negotiation lists fully public for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The CFL minimum is $70,000 (Canadian), roughly $50,000 USD. For perspective, the NFL minimum is $885,000 (for a full season) and practice squad players make $247,500 over 18 weeks. In the UFL, players make $64,000 for a 10-game season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Interestingly, a good amount of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmepackingcompany.com\/green-bay-packers-draft\/81038\/packers-draft-visit-tracker-2026-all-the-college-prospects-meeting-with-green-bay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Packers\u2019 pre-draft visitors<\/a> this cycle were on CFL negotiation lists. Green Bay leaned into undrafted free agent recruiting with its 30 visits this cycle, but many of these projected UDFAs ended up getting drafted on Day 3. This was the case for Texas Tech quarterback Behren Morton (Calgary), East Carolina receiver Anthony Smith (Montreal), Washington defensive tackle Anterior Thompson (Winnipeg) and Wake Forest cornerback Karon Prunty (Winnipeg). Another visitor on CFL negotiation lists, and who was signed by the New York Giants as a UDFA, was New Mexico running back Damon Bankston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if the Packers (and other clubs in the NFL) are now using the CFL\u2019s negotiation list as a way to spot potential hidden gems in the draft. For perspective, all of the players listed above were added to negotiation lists well before the combine or these players\u2019 respective pro days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In other CFL negotiation list news, two of the Packers\u2019 three most recent cuts have made the list. Green Bay cut three players when they began Phase 1 of their offseason program: tight end McCallan Castles, linebacker Jamon Johnson (given an injury designation) and cornerback Tyron Herring. Both Johnson and Herring were added to Hamilton\u2019s negotiation list following their release, while Castles hasn\u2019t received any burn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back on January 28th, the Montreal Alouettes added Virginia Tech quarterback Kyron Drones to their negotiation list, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[156905,18811,349,99],"class_list":["post-610805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-green-bay-packers-draft","tag-green-bay-packers-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}