Eight Canadian Premier League (CPL) teams selected 16 eligible U Sports athletes in total when the draft was held on January 29, 2021.
Players could be selected if they had years of U Sports eligibility remaining and had declared for the draft.
[3] The draft used a snake format with the order reversing directions between the two rounds.
[4] The following players signed development contracts with their respective CPL teams in 2020 and had U Sports eligibility remaining.
Their CPL clubs chose to retain their rights for another year, exempting them from the draft.