{"id":13926,"date":"2025-07-21T22:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13926\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:17:07","slug":"shane-richards-returns-to-toronto-after-being-drafted-first-overall-by-argos-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13926\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Richards returns to Toronto after being drafted first overall by Argos in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 The Argonauts have signed offensive lineman Shane Richards, who Toronto selected first overall in the 2019 CFL draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Richards played 16 games with Edmonton last year, making 12 starts at right guard. He became a free agent after the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Before signing with Edmonton, Richards played in 42 games over four seasons with Toronto and won a Grey Cup with the Argonauts in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The six-foot-eight, 325-pound lineman was born in Kingston, Jamaica and grew up in Calgary. He attended New Mexico Military Institute in 2015 before finishing his collegiate career at Oklahoma State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Argonauts also added American running back Jyran Mitchell and defensive lineman Ricky Correia to the practice roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Argonauts (1-5) host the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (3-2) on Saturday in a rematch of the 2024 Grey Cup game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 21, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 The Argonauts have signed offensive lineman Shane Richards, who Toronto selected first overall in the 2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-13926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}