2025 BC Lions season | |
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General manager | Ryan Rigmaiden |
President | Duane Vienneau |
Head coach | Buck Pierce |
Home field | BC Place Stadium |
Results | |
Record | 0–0 |
Division place | TBD, West |
Playoff finish | TBD |
Uniform | |
The 2025 BC Lions season is scheduled to be the 67th season for the team in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and their 71st overall. The Lions will attempt to qualify for the playoffs for the fourth straight year and win their seventh Grey Cup championship.
The 2025 CFL season will be the first season for Buck Pierce as the team's head coach after Rick Campbell was fired on November 20, 2024, following four seasons with the team. [1] [2] This will also be the first season with Ryan Rigmaiden as the team's general manager with Neil McEvoy being promoted to vice-president of football operations. [1]
The 2025 CFL draft is scheduled to take place in the spring of 2025. [3] The Lions are scheduled to have eight selections in the eight-round draft. Not including traded picks of forfeitures, the team will select fourth in each round of the draft after finishing sixth in the 2024 league standings. [4]
Round | Pick | Player | Position | School | Hometown |
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1 | 3 | ||||
2 | 9 | ||||
2 | 12 | ||||
4 | 29 | ||||
5 | 41 | ||||
6 | 50 | ||||
7 | 59 | ||||
8 | 67 |
The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Lions compete in the West Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL), and play their home games at BC Place.
Jarious K. Jackson is an American professional football coach and former player who is the offensive coordinator, and quarterbacks coach for the Edmonton Elks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He has also been a coach for the Toronto Argonauts, Saskatchewan Roughriders, and BC Lions and served as the interim head coach for the Elks in 2024. Jackson played professionally as a quarterback in the CFL for eight seasons with the Lions and one year with the Argonauts where he won three Grey Cup championships in 2006, 2011, and 2012. He has also been a member of the Denver Broncos (NFL), to whom he was drafted 214th overall in the 2000 NFL draft, and the Barcelona Dragons. Jackson played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
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