2022 CFL global draft

The 2022 CFL global draft was a selection of non-Canadian and non-American players by Canadian Football League (CFL) teams that took place on May 3, 2022. It was the second CFL draft that pools all of the global players together after previously having separate drafts for Mexican players and European players in 2019.^[1][2] 27 players were chosen from among eligible players following the CFL Combine in March.^[2] Similar to the previous year's draft, this was a snake draft with the even-numbered rounds being the reverse order of the odd-numbered rounds.^[3]

2022 CFL global draft
General information
Sport	Canadian football
Date(s)	May 3, 2022
Time	12:00 pm EDT
Location	Toronto
Overview
27 total selections in 3 rounds
League	CFL
First selection	Kingsley Jonathan, DE, Montreal Alouettes
U Sports selections	2
NCAA selections	17
← 2021 2023 →

The draft was streamed on CFL.ca and was hosted by Marshall Ferguson and the CFL's Head of Football Operations, Greg Dick.^[4]

Waiver priority order

The order of the draft was determined by a weighted lottery system and be based upon the waiver priority (reverse standings from 2021), as opposed to the random lottery order from the 2021 CFL global draft.^[5] The weighted lottery was determined based on the waiver priority order below:

PR	ADP	Diff ±	Team
1	2	–1	Edmonton Elks
2	8	–6	Ottawa Redblacks
3	3	–	BC Lions
4	1	+3	Montreal Alouettes
5	7	–2	Calgary Stampeders
6	4	+2	Toronto Argonauts
7	5	+2	Saskatchewan Roughriders
8	9	–1	Hamilton Tiger-Cats
9	6	+3	Winnipeg Blue Bombers

Draft order

Round one

Pick #	CFL team	Player	Position	University/club team	Nationality
1	Montreal Alouettes	Kingsley Jonathan	DE	Syracuse	Nigeria
2	Hamilton Tiger-Cats (via Edmonton[trade 1])	Bailey Flint	P	Toledo	Australia
3	BC Lions	Karlis Brauns	DL	Panthers Wrocław	Latvia
4	Toronto Argonauts	John Haggerty	P	Western Kentucky	Australia
5	Saskatchewan Roughriders	Jordan Genmark Heath	LB	California, Los Angeles	Sweden
6	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	Tom Hackett	P	Utah	Australia
7	Calgary Stampeders	Bamidele Olaseni	OL	Utah	Great Britain
8	Ottawa Redblacks	Héctor Zepeda	OL	Borregos Salvajes Monterrey	Mexico
9	Edmonton Elks (via Hamilton[trade 1])	Ben Griffiths	P	Southern California	Australia

Round two

Pick #	CFL team	Player	Position	University/club team	Nationality
10	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	Blake Hayes	P	Illinois	Australia
11	Ottawa Redblacks	Edris Jean Alphonse	DB	Laval	France
12	Calgary Stampeders	Ryan Gomes	LB	Galo	Brazil
13	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	Souleymane Karamoko	DB	Laval	France
14	Saskatchewan Roughriders	Lukas Ruoss	LB	Bemidji State	Switzerland
15	Toronto Argonauts	Simeon Okonta-Wariso	DL	Lübeck Cougars	Great Britain
16	BC Lions	Marcel Dabo	DB	Stuttgart Surge	Germany
17	Edmonton Elks	Rafael Gaglianone	K	Wisconsin	Brazil
18	Montreal Alouettes	Thomas Odukoya	TE	Eastern Michigan	Netherlands

Round three

Pick #	CFL team	Player	Position	University/club team	Nationality
19	Montreal Alouettes	Kirk Christodoulou	P	Pittsburgh	Australia
20	Edmonton Elks	Corliss Waitman	P	South Alabama	Belgium
21	BC Lions	John-Levi Kruse	FB	Hamburg Sea Devils	Germany
22	Toronto Argonauts	Otavio Amorim	OL	Berlin Thunder	Brazil
23	Saskatchewan Roughriders	Maceo Beard-Aigret	DB	Potsdam Royals	France
24	Winnipeg Blue Bombers	Michael Sleep-Dalton	P	Iowa	Australia
25	Calgary Stampeders	Bailey Devine-Scott	DB	Western New England	Australia
26	Ottawa Redblacks	Gabriel Ballinas	K	Albany State	Mexico
27	Hamilton Tiger-Cats	Ralfs Rusins	DT	Liberty	Latvia

Trades

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

• Edmonton ←→ Hamilton (PD). Edmonton traded the second overall selection in this draft, Kyle Saxelid, and Grant McDonald to Hamilton in exchange for the ninth overall selection in this draft, along with the eighth and 28th overall selections in the 2022 CFL national draft.^{[trade 1]}

See also

• 2022 CFL draft

References

Trade references

1. "Elks, Ticats make pre-draft trade". Canadian Football League. May 2, 2022.

General references

1. "CFL to hold global player combines in Europe, Mexico and, and Japan". press.cfl.ca. November 5, 2019. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
2. "CFL aligns Global Draft date w/ CFL Draft on May 3". Canadian Football League. February 24, 2022.
3. "2022 Global Draft Tracker". Canadian Football League. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
4. "CFL.ca to livestream CFL Global Draft on May 3". Canadian Football League. May 2, 2022.
5. "CFL calendar busy with free agency, virtual combines, drafts". Canadian Football League. February 4, 2021.