2024 CFL draft

The 2024 CFL National Draft is a selection of National players by Canadian Football League teams that is scheduled to take place on April 30, 2024 at 8:00 pm ET.^[1] 74 players will be chosen from among eligible players from Canadian Universities across the country, as well as Canadian players playing in the NCAA and NAIA.^[2][3] That number is subject to change if there are any forfeited selections.

Format changes

As per the 2022 collective bargaining agreement, beginning with this year's draft, the two teams that had National players featured in the highest percentage of snaps played in the 2023 CFL season will each be awarded an additional second-round pick.^[3] Because of this change, there will no longer be second-round territorial selections for the two worst teams from the previous season.^[3][4][5]

Top prospects

Source: CFL Scouting Bureau rankings.^[6]

Draft order

Round one

Round two

Round three

Round four

Round five

Round six

Round seven

Round eight

Trades

In the explanations below, (D) denotes trades that took place during the draft, while (PD) indicates trades completed pre-draft.

Round one

• Hamilton ←→ Toronto (PD). Hamilton traded the fifth overall selection and two third-round picks in this year's draft, a conditional third-round pick in the 2025 CFL Draft, and the negotiation rights to Deontay Burnett to Toronto in exchange for Jordan Williams, the seventh overall selection, a second-round pick, and a fourth-round pick in this year's draft, and a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2025 CFL Draft.^{[trade 1]}

Round two

• Hamilton → Calgary (PD). Hamilton traded this selection, a first-round pick in the 2023 CFL Draft, a third-round pick in the 2023 CFL Draft, and a sixth-round pick in the 2023 CFL Draft to Calgary in exchange for Bo Levi Mitchell, a first-round pick in the 2023 CFL Draft, and a third-round pick in this year's draft.^{[trade 2]}
• Montreal → Edmonton (PD). Montreal traded this selection to Edmonton in exchange for Jesse Gibbon.^{[trade 3]}
• Toronto → Hamilton (PD). Toronto traded a second-round pick in this year's draft, Jordan Williams, the seventh overall selection and a fourth-round pick in this year's draft, and a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2025 CFL Draft to Hamilton in exchange for the fifth overall selection and two third-round picks in this year's draft, a conditional third-round pick in the 2025 CFL Draft, and the negotiation rights to Deontay Burnett.^{[trade 1]}

Round three

• Calgary → Hamilton (PD). Calgary traded this selection, Bo Levi Mitchell, and a first-round pick in the 2023 CFL Draft to Hamilton in exchange for a second-round pick in this year's draft, a first-round pick in the 2023 CFL Draft, a third-round pick in the 2023 CFL Draft, and a sixth-round pick in the 2023 CFL Draft.^{[trade 2]}
• Hamilton → Toronto (PD). Hamilton traded two third-round picks and the fifth overall selection in this year's draft, a conditional third-round pick in the 2025 CFL Draft, and the negotiation rights to Deontay Burnett to Toronto in exchange for Jordan Williams, the seventh overall selection, a second-round pick, and a fourth-round pick in this year's draft, and a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2025 CFL Draft.^{[trade 1]}

Round four

• BC → Hamilton (PD). BC traded a fourth-round selection to Hamilton in exchange for Dane Evans.^{[trade 10]} The draft pick could have been escalated if undisclosed conditions were met.^{[trade 10]}
• Hamilton → BC (PD). Hamilton traded the fourth-round selection originally acquired in the Dane Evans trade above back to BC in exchange for Jonathan Kongbo.^{[trade 11]}
• Ottawa → Edmonton (PD). Ottawa traded this selection to Edmonton in exchange for Kevin Francis.^{[trade 4]}
• BC → Ottawa (PD). BC traded a conditional fourth-round selection and a third-round pick in the 2023 CFL Draft to Ottawa in exchange for Terry Williams.^{[trade 5]} This condition was fulfilled, as per the official draft order.^[5]
• Toronto → Hamilton (PD). Toronto traded a fourth-round pick in this year's draft, Jordan Williams, the seventh overall selection and a second-round pick in this year's draft, and a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2025 CFL Draft to Hamilton in exchange for the fifth overall selection and two third-round picks in this year's draft, a conditional third-round pick in the 2025 CFL Draft, and the negotiation rights to Deontay Burnett.^{[trade 1]}

Round five

• Edmonton → Toronto (PD). Edmonton traded a fifth-round selection and the negotiation rights to Xavier Gipson to Toronto in exchange Sam Acheampong.^{[trade 6]}
• Ottawa → Winnipeg (PD). Ottawa traded a fifth-round selection to Winnipeg in exchange for the negotiation rights of Dru Brown.^{[trade 7]}

Round six

• Edmonton → Toronto (PD). Edmonton traded a sixth-round selection to Toronto in exchange Theren Churchill.^{[trade 8]} The selection would be upgraded to a fifth-round pick if Churchill is named to the Elks' active roster for at least nine games during the 2023 season.^{[trade 8]}

Round seven

• Toronto → Edmonton (PD). Toronto traded this selection and Kurleigh Gittens Jr. to Edmonton in exchange for Jake Ceresna and a negotiation list player.^{[trade 9]}

Conditional trades

• Montreal → Calgary (PD). Montreal traded a conditional second-round selection to Calgary in exchange for the playing rights to Laurent Duvernay-Tardif.^{[trade 12]} The condition will be fulfilled if Duvernay-Tardif signs with the Alouettes.

References

Trade references

General references

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