Tiger-cats Acquire Wide Receiver Chambers From Eskimos

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats announced Sunday that the football club has acquired national wide receiver Shamawd Chambers from the Edmonton Eskimos in exchange for a seventh round pick in the 2018 CFL Draft and a fifth round pick in the 2019 CFL Draft.
Chambers, 28, has appeared in six games with the Eskimos this season, posting four receptions for 40 yards. The 6-3, 219-pound native of Markham, Ontario, has recorded 141 receptions for 1,543 yards and eight touchdowns over 70 games during his six-year CFL career with the Eskimos (2012-15, 2017) and Saskatchewan Roughriders (2016). He won a Grey Cup with the Eskimos in 2015 and was named the game’s Most Valuable Canadian in Edmonton’s 26-20 triumph over the Ottawa Redblacks.
Selected in the first round, sixth overall, by Edmonton in the 2012 CFL Draft out of Wilfrid Laurier University, Chambers registered 2,068 yards on 151 receptions with 18 touchdowns in 37 career games with the Golden Hawks. He also returned 26 kickoffs for 587 yards and a touchdown and 27 punt returns for 237 yards.