2025 CFL global draft
{{Short description|Sports draft}}
{{Infobox sports draft
| name = 2025 CFL global draft
| logosize = 250px
| logoalt =
| sport = Canadian football
| date = April 29, 2025
| time = 11:00 am EDT
| network =
| overall = 18
| rounds = 2
| league = Canadian Football League
| first = Fraser Masin, Calgary Stampeders
| fewest =
| fewnum =
| most =
| mostnum =
| u_sports = 0
| ncaa = 17
| prev = 2024
| next = 2026
}}
The 2025 CFL global draft was a selection of non-Canadian and non-American players by Canadian Football League (CFL) teams that took place on April 29, 2025, at 11:00 am ET.{{cite web|url=https://www.cfl.ca/2025/01/21/key-2025-cfl-off-season-dates-you-need-to-know/ |title=Key 2025 CFL off-season dates you need to know |publisher=Canadian Football League |date=January 21, 2025}} It was the fifth CFL draft that pools all of the global players together after previously having separate drafts for Mexican players and European players in 2019.{{cite press release|url=https://press.cfl.ca/cfl-to-hold-global-player-combines-in-europe-mexico-and-japan |title=CFL to hold global player combines in Europe, Mexico and Japan |publisher=Canadian Football League |date=November 5, 2019 |access-date=January 21, 2025}}
Draft format
This year's draft featured two rounds with a total of 18 selections.{{cite news|url=https://www.cfl.ca/2025-global-draft-tracker/ |title=2025 Global draft tracker |publisher=Canadian Football League |access-date=March 29, 2025}} The draft order was based on the waiver priority (reverse standings from the previous year).
Draft order
=Round one=
| class="wikitable" style="width: 90%" | |||||
| width=7%| Pick # | width=30% | CFL Team | width=20% | Player | width=8% | Position | width=20% | University | width=30% | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center| 1 | Calgary Stampeders | Fraser Masin | P | Mississippi | {{flag|Australia}} |
| align=center| 2 | Winnipeg Blue Bombers (via Hamilton) | Kemari Munier-Bailey | DL | Weber State | {{flag|United Kingdom}} |
| align=center| 3 | Edmonton Elks | Richard Jibunor | LB | Troy | {{flag|Nigeria}} |
| align=center| 4 | BC Lions | Ross Bolger | K/P | Idaho State | {{flag|Ireland}} |
| align=center| 5 | Ottawa Redblacks | Callum Eddings | K/P | Stephen F. Austin | {{flag|Australia}} |
| align=center| 6 | Saskatchewan Roughriders | Sylvain Yondjouen | DL | Georgia Tech | {{flag|Belgium}} |
| align=center| 7 | Montreal Alouettes | Joshua Sloan | P | Memphis | {{flag|Australia}} |
| align=center| 8 | Hamilton Tiger-Cats (via Winnipeg) | Josh Green | P | Oregon State | {{flag|Australia}} |
| align=center| 9 | Toronto Argonauts | Valentin Senn | OL | Connecticut | {{flag|Austria}} |
=Round two=
| class="wikitable" style="width: 90%" | |||||
| width=7%| Pick # | width=30% | CFL Team | width=20% | Player | width=8% | Position | width=20% | University | width=30% | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center| 10 | Calgary Stampeders | Mark Vassett | P | Colorado | {{flag|Australia}} |
| align=center| 11 | Hamilton Tiger-Cats | Maximilian Mang | TE | Syracuse | {{flag|Germany}} |
| align=center| 12 | Edmonton Elks | Alex Raich | LB | Kansas | {{flag|Switzerland}} |
| align=center| 13 | BC Lions | Mark McNamee | K | {{n/a|No college}} | {{flag|Ireland}} |
| align=center| 14 | Ottawa Redblacks | James Burnip | P | Alabama | {{flag|Australia}} |
| align=center| 15 | Saskatchewan Roughriders | Jesse Mirco | P | Vanderbilt | {{flag|Australia}} |
| align=center| 16 | Montreal Alouettes | Joshua Hutley | P | Concord | {{flag|Australia}} |
| align=center| 17 | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | James Evans | P | Indiana | {{flag|New Zealand}} |
| align=center| 18 | Toronto Argonauts | Soane Toia | DL | San Jose State | {{flag|Tonga}} |
Trades
In the explanations below, (D) denotes trades that took place during the draft, while (PD) indicates trades completed pre-draft.
=Round one=
- Winnipeg ↔ Hamilton (D). Winnipeg traded the eighth overall pick in this year's draft, the 36th overall pick in the 2025 CFL draft, and Kyle Samson to Hamilton in exchange for Matthew Peterson, the second overall pick in this year's draft, and the 39th overall pick in the 2025 CFL draft.{{cite web|url=https://www.cfl.ca/2025/04/29/ticats-land-dl-kyle-samson-in-draft-day-trade-with-bombers/ |title=Ticats land DL Kyle Samson in Draft day trade with Bombers |publisher=Canadian Football League |date=April 29, 2026}}
See also
References
Trade references
{{Reflist|group=trade}}
General references
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{{CFL Drafts}}
{{2025 CFL season by team}}
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