HAMILTON — Kenny Lawler didn’t leave the Winnipeg Blue Bombers for a bigger pay day or a better opportunity.

For the star receiver, it boiled down to one main thing: disrespect.

“Y’all signed Dillon Mitchell before me. Who wouldn’t (feel disrespected)?” Lawler shared with the Free Press on Thursday in a one-on-one chat inside Hamilton Stadium.

“I didn’t know that I was going to be leaving Winnipeg. I always thought there would be light at the end of the tunnel at the end of free agency that we’d get something done but nothing got done and nothing ever got figured out.”

Now a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Lawler said he didn’t receive a contract offer from the Bombers until a day before free agency opened at the start of February. His agent only had two brief conversations with W

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