North Vancouver’s Mitch Barnett was taken in the seventh round, 59th overall by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the 2016 CFL Draft held last month.
“I was getting a little nervous,” Barnett said about sitting through six and a half rounds of the eight-round CFL draft. “Then my agent called me and told me I had been drafted. It was surreal.”
The Handsworth grad was a key cog in the UBC Thunderbirds team that claimed the Vanier Cup last fall. The linebacker was second in the Canada West league in 2015 with 53.5 total tackles and third with 4.5 sacks during the regular season.
