CFL Team Award Recipients for 2019 Announced

The Canadian Football League has officially announced the names of the players who were bestowed with team awards. Each club hands out six awards to their players, which also serves as a nomination for the 2019 Shaw CFL Awards ceremony. Many sports writers and important names in the sports world praised this approach, as it can lead to a more objective way of rewarding players for their performance.

Each team’s winners were voted by their respective head coach and journalists who are members of the Football Reports of Canada (FRC) organization. Interestingly, only journalists based in the same city as the team could cast a vote.

This aspect also received praise because it promotes objectivity when it comes to nominations, while also preventing reporters who aren’t knowledgeable about a particular team from skewing the results. Other North American sports leagues, such as the National Basketball Association (NBA), have a rampart problem with subjective voting and a lack of parameters, which resulted in situations such as Gary Washburn from the Boston Globe preventing LeBron James from being the first unanimous MVP in league history.

In total, voters had to pick players in six categories, which are:

Most Outstanding Player

● Most Outstanding Canadian

● Most Outstanding Defensive Player

● Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman

● Most Outstanding Rookie

● Most Outstanding Special Teams Player

On November 7, the CFL will announce the winners for both the East and West divisions, while the 2019 Shaw CFL Awards are to take place on November 21 at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary. The ceremony will be one of the many events that will take place during the four-day Grey Cup Festival. Do you want to be the next winner? Try your luck in one of the Online Casinos in Canada.

2019 CFL Team Award Winners

Players with an asterisk next to their names were selected unanimously by their cities’ respective voting panels.

BC LIONS

Player: Bryan Burnham*

Defensive: T.J. Lee

Canadian: Lemar Durant*

Offensive Lineman: Joel Figueroa

Special Teams: Sergio Castillo *

Rookie: Jevon Cottoy

CALGARY STAMPEDERS

Player: Reggie Begelton*

Defensive: Tre Roberson*

Canadian: Cory Greenwood*

Offensive Lineman: Shane Bergman

Special Teams: Nate Holley*

Rookie: Nate Holley

EDMONTON ESKIMOS

Player: Trevor Harris

Defensive: Larry Dean*

Canadian: Kwaku Boateng

Offensive Lineman: David Beard*

Special Teams: Sean Whyte*

Rookie: Vontae Diggs*

HAMILTON TIGER-CATS

Player: Brandon Banks*

Defensive: Simoni Lawrence

Canadian: Brandon Revenberg

Offensive Lineman: Chris Van Zeyl

Special Teams: Frankie Williams

Rookie: Jaelon Acklin

MONTREAL ALOUETTES

Player: Vernon Adams Jr.*

Defensive: Henoc Muamba

Canadian: Henoc Muamba

Offensive Lineman: Kristian Matte

Special Teams: Boris Bede

Rookie: Jake Wieneke

OTTAWA REDBLACKS

Player: Avery Williams

Defensive: Avery Williams

Canadian: Nolan MacMillan

Offensive Lineman: Nolan MacMillan

Special Teams: Richie Leone

Rookie: Jerod Fernandez

SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS

Player: Cody Fajardo*

Defensive: Charleston Hughes

Canadian: Cameron Judge*

Offensive Lineman: Dan Clark*

Special Teams: Jon Ryan

Rookie: Dakoda Shepley*

TORONTO ARGONAUTS

Player: Derel Walker

Defensive: Cleyon Laing

Canadian: Cleyon Laing

Offensive Lineman: Sean McEwen*

Special Teams: Chris Rainey

Rookie: Kennan Gilchrist

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS

Player: Willie Jefferson

Defensive: Willie Jefferson*

Canadian: Mike Miller

Offensive Lineman: Stanley Bryant*

Special Teams: Mike Miller*

Rookie: Kenny Lawler