{"id":38440,"date":"2026-05-09T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/38440\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:32:08","slug":"brady-oliveira-wants-to-play-10-cfl-seasons-retire-as-a-winnipeg-blue-bomber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/38440\/","title":{"rendered":"Brady Oliveira wants to play 10 CFL seasons, retire as a Winnipeg Blue Bomber"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brady Oliveira wants to start and end his Canadian Football League career with one team: the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I\u2019m getting older and I\u2019m going into year seven, I very much know where I want to end this thing off: it\u2019s definitely with Winnipeg. I got a lot going on in Winnipeg, my family\u2019s there, businesses are there, filming the TV show<\/a>. Life is good for me in Winnipeg and\u00a0playing for my hometown \u2014 dream come true,\u201d Oliveira recently told 3DownNation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to retire as a Bomber \u2014 totally on the record. Signing a longer-term deal, that puts me with nine years with that team. For me to go somewhere else for maybe two more seasons, what is that going to do for me? That actually negatively affects my legacy, I would say. If I can stay with the same club, be loyal to that organization and retire a Bomber,\u00a0that\u2019s amazing. That would be a dream come true for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The five-foot-nine, 229-pound running back was selected by the Blue Bombers in the second round, 14th overall during the 2019 CFL Draft. He learned how to become an elite player at his position from fellow Winnipegger Andrew Harris for three years and two seasons, then took over the starting job in 2022.<\/p>\n

Since then, the Oak Park High School graduate has posted four-straight 1,000-yard rushing campaigns, earned two Most Outstanding Canadian awards, and one Most Outstanding Player nod.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve definitely chatted to my people, my family, my girlfriend, my loved ones\u00a0about what this will look like moving forward. I\u2019m going to play out this three-year<\/a>\u00a0contract, that\u2019ll take me to 31-years-old. A goal of mine has always been to play 10 seasons. Every football player has that in mind, play a decade as a pro \u2014 it\u2019s a very\u00a0hard feat to accomplish. That\u2019s definitely what I have in mind,\u201d Oliveira said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be about,\u00a0how\u2019s my body feel? If I still feel good, do I still love the game? If I still love the game, I still have that passion and I still enjoy the process that comes with it \u2014 everyone wants to play on game day \u2014 but what about getting up early in the morning? Doing your speed workouts, going to the gym, all the offseason routine that comes with being a good pro. Do I still want to do that? If so, I would like to sign back with Winnipeg. If it\u2019s not with Winnipeg, I don\u2019t need to go anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oliveira will earn $290,000 in 2026, then $300,000 in 2027 and 2028, with $140,000 guaranteed in the final year of the contract. The 28-year-old local star was already the CFL\u2019s highest-paid running back<\/a>, earning $240,000 in 2025. The Bombers gave him a pay raise for his durability, productivity, and ratio-breaking capability on the field. That prevented him from entering the three-down league\u2019s negotiation window.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was going through negotiations and conversations I had with my agent, it wasn\u2019t necessarily going after all the money. If I\u00a0wanted that, I would have tested the market. From my past experiences from other negotiations\u00a0two years prior, I got massive offers. I could have pushed that if the\u00a0money was the end-all, be-all \u2014 it wasn\u2019t for me,\u201d Oliveira explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the most important things in negotiations\u00a0was show me the respect by a respectful offer and show me that loyalty by giving me\u00a0guaranteed money. They didn\u2019t flinch. When they did that, it was the best negotiations that I\u2019ve ever been a part of. The last\u00a0one I went through, I definitely saw the business side and it sucks, but it\u2019s the reality of the industry that we\u2019re in. This time around, it was so seamless, so easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through the last four seasons, when Oliveira has been the Blue Bombers\u2019 starting running back, he\u2019s played in 68 out of a possible 72 regular-season games and all seven playoff games the team has been in, including three Grey Cups. No. 20 has averaged 225.5 carries, 1,262.8 rushing yards, 44.8 receptions, 439 receiving yards \u2014 1,701.8 yards from scrimmage \u2014 and 6.3 touchdowns per year since becoming the lead back in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve shown how consistent I\u2019ve been week in, week out, year-after-year. I wanted to be compensated properly and to show their respect. Like, \u2018Hey, we appreciate what you do for this organization, not just on the field,\u00a0but off the field as well in the community.\u2019 Very thankful that they came to me with a very respectful offer, it showed\u00a0how much they appreciate what I do for the organization,\u201d Oliveira said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we were able to get a deal done quickly,\u00a0I knew that I didn\u2019t need to go and engage\u00a0in the market out there because I was very much happy and pleased with what they offered me. \u2026 Could I go get a little bit more? No one will ever know now, but I was happy with what the team offered me. This is where I wanted to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a salary cap era where players change teams with regularity, Oliveira could be a rare professional athlete who stays with one franchise for his entire career \u2014 and it\u2019s his hometown team to boot.<\/p>\n

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Football insider, reporter and analyst.<\/p>\n

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