2024 CFLPA All-Stars

CFLPA All-Star nominations are considered to be highly prestigious awards as they are voted on by peers – for the players and by the players. The 2024 ballot was made available to all CFLPA members on each team that competed in a minimum of 1 game this season. There were more than 470 ballots cast and only players who had played 12 or more games during this season were eligible to be on a ballot.

TOM PATE AWARD

Every year the Canadian Football League Players’ Association presents the Tom Pate Award; an award we hold in high regard. It is not a “Jock Award” but rather an award given to players who display qualities that distinguish them from their peers. It is this rare quality that the players who have won maintained and made them recipients of the award. Tom Pate had a unique combination of outstanding sportsmanship and dedication to the league and the community.

He was educated at the University of Nebraska where he majored in business administration, and played first-stringer with the Cornhuskers. After shuffling through various teams, he became a star with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. In October 1975, however, his stardom as well as his life, was abruptly ended, when in his fourteenth game, against the Stampeders in Calgary, he suffered an aneurysm in the fourth quarter. Pate, only 23 at the time, never regained consciousness and died just two days later.

Each year we invite each team to nominate a team member for this award. The recipient should embody the qualities that distinguished Tom Pate; qualities that recognize a player with outstanding sportsmanship, a player who has made a contribution to his team as well as to his community and to his Association.

Historical winners

2024
Adam Bighill
Winnipeg Blue Bombers

2023
Brett Lauther
Saskatchewan Roughriders

2022
Emmanuel Arceneaux
Edmonton Elks

2021
Mike Daly
Hamilton Tiger Cats

2019
Rob Maver
Calgary Stampeders

2018
Ryan King
Edmonton Eskimos

2017
Adarius Bowman
Edmonton Eskimos

2016
Marco Iannuzzi
BC Lions

2015
Henry Burris
Ottawa RedBlacks

2014
Randy Chevrier
Calgary Stampeders

2013
Kyries Hebert
Montreal Alouettes

2012
Brian Bratton
Montreal Alouettes

2011
Kevin Glenn
Hamilton Tiger Cats

2010
Wes Lysack
Calgary Stampeders

2009
Marwan Hage
Hamilton Tiger Cats

2008
Jeremy O’Day
Saskatchewan Roughriders

2007
Milt Stegall
Winnipeg Blue Bombers

2006
Mark Washington
BC Lions

2005
Danny McManus
Hamilton Tiger Cats

2004
Barron Miles
Montreal Alouettes

2003
Steve Hardin
BC Lions

2002
Greg Frers
Calgary Stampeders

2001
Rick Walters
Edmonton Eskimos

2000
Mike Morreale
Hamilton Tiger Cats

1999
Jamie Taras
B.C. Lions

1998
Glen Scrivener
Winnipeg Blue Bombers

1997
Mark McLoughlin
Calgary Stampeders

1996
Michael “Pinball” Clemons
Toronto Argonauts

1995
Mark McLoughlin
Calgary Stampeders

1994
O.J. Brigance
Baltimore Stallions

1993
Michael “Pinball” Clemons
Toronto Argonauts

1992
Danny Barrett
B.C. Lions

1991
Stu Laird
Calgary Stampeders

1990
Ritchie Hall
Saskatchewan Roughriders

1989
Matt Dunigan
B.C. Lions

1988
Hector Pothier
Edmonton Eskimos

1987
Nick Arakgi
Montreal Alouettes

1986
Tyrone Crews
B.C. Lions

1985
Jerry Friesen
Saskatchewan Roughriders

1984
Bruce Walker
Ottawa Rough Riders

1983
Henry Waszczuk
Hamilton Tiger-Cats

1982
David Boone
Edmonton Eskimos

1981
Ken McEachern
Saskatchewan Roughriders

1980
Jim Coode
Ottawa Rough Riders

1979
Peter Muller
Toronto Argonauts

1978
John Helton
Calgary Stampeders

1977
Ron Lancaster
Saskatchewan Roughriders

1976
George Reed
Saskatchewan Roughriders