B.C. Lions release veteran fullback Lumbala after 11 seasons with club
The B.C. Lions released veteran Canadian fullback Rolly Lumbala on Friday, two days before the CFL team opened its training camp.
Lumbala served on the CFL Players’ Association’s bargaining committee this off-season. Earlier this week, the league and union reached a tentative agreement that’s pending ratification by the players.
Lumbala, an 11-year veteran with B.C., becomes the second long-serving veteran recently released by the Lions. Linebacker Solomon Elimimian, who was also part of the union’s bargaining committee, was let go by the CFL club April 30 after 11 seasons.
Elimimian eventually signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.