CFL: 4th season

Stamps: 4th season

Games played through 2024

Regular season: 53

Playoffs: 3

Grey Cup: 0

Grey Cup wins: 0

Acquired

Selected in the second round (11th overall) of the 2021 CFL draft and signed on May 18, 2021.

2024

(Calgary) Bell played 10 games, making 10 starts at left guard. He has one reception on a tipped ball. In Week 8 at Ottawa, he suited up for the 50th regular-season game of his career. Bell missed the final eight games of the season with a calf injury.

2023

(Calgary) Bell was in uniform for 12 regular-season games and made nine starts – five at left tackle and four at right tackle. He was part of an offensive line that allowed just 24 sacks, the third-lowest total in the CFL. Bell was placed on the six-game injury list prior to Week 12 and he returned to action in Week 20. He started the Western Semi-Final at right tackle.

2022

(Calgary) Bell was in uniform for all 18 regular-season games and made seven starts. In August and September, he made six starts at centre in place of the injured Sean McEwen. In the regular-season finale, Bell started at left tackle. In the other games as well as the Western Semi-Final, he served as a reserve and saw action in offensive packages that required a sixth offensive lineman.

2021

(Calgary) Bell played 13 regular-season games during his rookie season including three starts at right tackle and one start at left tackle. He was part of an offensive line that allowed the second-fewest sacks in the league and blocked for Ka’Deem Carey, who led all running backs with seven rushing touchdowns and was second in the league in both rushing yards and yards from scrimmage. Bell also dressed for the Western Semi-Final.

Notable

First game: Aug. 7, 2021, vs Toronto

College

Bell played 26 games over four seasons (2016-19) at Wilfrid Laurier including 16 starts at right tackle. Over the 2018 and 2019 seasons, Bell was part of a Golden Hawks offensive line that allowed the fewest sacks in Ontario University Athletics and in 2019 helped pave the way for conference rushing champion Levondre Gordon. Bell was the first Golden Hawks offensive lineman to appear on the CFL Scouting Bureau’s list of the top 20 CFL draft-eligible prospects.

Personal

Bell attended Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School in Waterloo and also played in the Cambridge Lions varsity program.