CFL lays the ground work for Ottawa's return

With the caveat that there really, really does need to be a stadium in place, the CFL has offered up the first stages of the league's plans to return to the National capital in time for the 2013 season.

The league today provided the blue print for the league draft that will stock the Ottawa franchise with players, providing details on what the Ottawa team can look forward to once they get to plotting their roster for that 2013 debut.

The expansion draft which will take place in December of 2012 will provide for three rounds of picks for Ottawa, one for imports and two round for the all important non import aspect of a CFL roster.

In total, Ottawa will be allowed to select a total of eight imports and sixteen non imports from CFL rosters. Included in that total will be two quarterbacks from the other eight members of the collective.

Providing the team is set to go, Ottawa's management will also be allowed to take part in the 2013  college draft, picking first in all six rounds of the 2013 Canadian draft and having selected as many as four underclassmen from the NCAA in 2012 CFL Canadian draft.

Some of the details on the expansion draft can be found below

Globe and Mail-- CFL develops expansion plan for Ottawa 
Vancouver Sun--  Draft plan supposed to make Ottawa competitive. We'll see 
Ottawa Citizen-- Ottawa's CFL franchise could have a partial roster by Christmas 2012 
Ottawa Sun-- CFL board confirms Ottawa team expansion draft