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. 27 players were chosen from among eligible players following the CFL Combine in March. 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.
The draft was streamed on CFL.ca and was hosted by Marshall Ferguson and the CFL's Head of Football Operations, Greg Dick.
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. The weighted lottery was determined based on the waiver priority order below:
Team 1 2 Edmonton Elks 2 8 Ottawa Redblacks 3 3 BC Lions 4 1 Montreal Alouettes 5 7 Calgary Stampeders 6 4 Toronto Argonauts 7 5 Saskatchewan Roughriders 8 9 Hamilton Tiger-Cats 9 6 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) 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 Monterrey Tech Mexico 9 Edmonton Elks (via Hamilton) 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.
See also 2022 CFL draft
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