MMQB: 3 conclusions from the 2025 season |
I said it many times over the last six months, and I wasn’t exaggerating: the 2025 CFL season was one of the most enjoyable in recent memory.
From all those close games to a spectacular post-season, standout individual performances, and more, there was so much to sink your teeth into. And as we start setting our sights on 2026, including a star-studded group of pending free agents, I’m still caught reflecting on the 24 weeks of outstanding football that wrapped up only a few weeks ago.
In that vein, here are three of our top takeaways from what was an awesome 2025 campaign.
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I ran into all kinds of difficulty when the CFL.ca assignment crew tasked me with identifying the top seven Canadian players of 2025. It turned out to be a challenge to narrow it down to only seven, which speaks to just how stellar the crop is right now. It’s no stretch to say this might be the strongest era of Canadian talent we’ve ever seen.
And we’re not just talking about “traditional” positions for Canadian players.
For a second straight year, the league’s Most Outstanding Player is Canadian with BC’s Nathan Rourke following Winnipeg’s Brady Oliveira. It’s an unprecedented double, as Canadian players had never won the award in consecutive years prior. In fact, Rourke and Oliveira joined Russ Jackson (1963, 1966, 1969), Tony Gabriel (1978) and Jon Cornish (2013) as the only Canadian players to ever take home the league’s top individual award.
But it goes far beyond that.