{"id":14446,"date":"2025-07-22T03:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14446\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:19:13","slug":"ol-richards-returns-to-toronto-after-being-drafted-first-overall-by-argos-in-2019-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14446\/","title":{"rendered":"OL Richards returns to Toronto after being drafted first overall by Argos in 2019 \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2013 The Argonauts have signed offensive lineman Shane Richards, who Toronto selected first overall in the 2019 CFL draft.<\/p>\n

Richards played 16 games with Edmonton last year, making 12 starts at right guard. He became a free agent after the season.<\/p>\n

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

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOklahoma State offensive lineman Shane Richards (67) during an NCAA college football media day in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/AP\/Sue Ogrocki<\/p>\n

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

The Argonauts also added American running back Jyran Mitchell and defensive lineman Ricky Correia to the practice roster.<\/p>\n

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The Argonauts (1-5) host the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (3-2) on Saturday in a rematch of the 2024 Grey Cup game.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 21, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2013 The Argonauts have signed offensive lineman Shane Richards, who Toronto selected first overall in the 2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-14446","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\/14446","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=14446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}