The 2019 CFL Draft took place on May 2, 2019 at 8:00 pm ET and was broadcast on TSN and RDS.
Randy Ambrosie, the CFL commissioner, was at the TSN studios in Toronto to announce the first twenty picks.
Beginning in 2019, the CFL announced the two teams with the highest waiver priority will each get to make one Territorial Draft Pick (to be used to select a player born within their territorial limits at the end of the second round).
[21] This was the first time since 1984 that the league’s draft will feature territorial selections.
From 1972 to 1982, each club had the right to pre-select two players from its region who would be exempted from the draft.