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1995 CFL draft

Canadian football draft

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ4590235
Source-derived summary

The 1995 CFL draft composed of seven rounds and 55 Canadian football players that were chosen from eligible Canadian universities as well as Canadian players playing in the NCAA. The first eight picks of the draft were part of a "bonus round" awarded to teams who had complied with the Competitive Expenditure Cap. The following round, consisting of picks 9–16, was the regular first round of the draft.

Bonus round

Round one

Round two

Round three

Round four

Round five

Round six

External links

"1995 Canadian Draft". Canadian Football League. Archived from the original on 2016-05-30. Retrieved 2017-08-23.

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This entry incorporates text from 1995 CFL draft” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.