Dru Brown returns to Winnipeg in commerce with Redblacks
Dru Brown is returning to Winnipeg after the Blue Bombers acquired the quarterback in a commerce with Ottawa on Tuesday.
The Blue Bombers additionally acquired a second-round choose within the 2027 CFL draft and despatched their first-round choice in 2027 and a conditional second-round choose in 2028 to Ottawa.
The transfer comes after Brown misplaced his beginning job in Ottawa to Jake Maier earlier than the season.
Brown appeared in 38 video games with Winnipeg from 2021-23, serving to the Bombers win the Gray Cup in his first season.
He principally served as a backup to star quarterback Zach Collaros however went 2-1 in three begins.
After his negotiating rights had been traded to Ottawa in January 2024, Brown signed with the Redblacks and have become their beginning quarterback.
He went 8-6-1 in his first season with Ottawa and helped the workforce attain the playoffs for the primary time since 2018, however regressed final season when he went 2-7 in an injury-plagued season.
He’ll return to a depth function behind Collaros in Winnipeg. The Blue Bombers dressed Canadian Taylor Elgersma as Collaros’s backup in its first two video games of the season.
Brown holds the CFL file for many landing passes in a season with out an interception, set in 2023 with 9.
