Kelowna’s Briggs back with Blue Bombers
WINNIPEG — The Blue Bombers have signed Canadian linebacker Jesse Briggs to a one-year contract extension.
The six-foot-1, 211-pound Kelowna Secondary graduate returns to the Bombers for a seventh season after originally being selected by the club in the second round, 17th overall, of the 2014 CFL draft.
The veteran linebacker was limited to just four regular-season games and three playoff contests in 2019 due to injuries after missing only three games in the first five years of his career.
Briggs finished the year with three tackles — two on defence and one on special teams — and added two special-teams tackles and a defensive tackle in Winnipeg’s run to the Grey Cup.
Briggs has 20 defensive tackles and 57 more on special teams over 91 CFL games with the Bombers.
— American wide receiver Demarcus Ayers and defensive back Christian Campbell have opted back into their contracts with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
Ayers comes to the Roughriders after three seasons in the NFL with Chicago, New England and Pittsburgh.
The University of Houston product was a seventh-round pick by Pittsburgh in 2016. Campbell was a sixth-round pick by Arizona in 2018. He spent parts of two seasons in the NFL with Arizona, New Orleans and San Francisco.