{"id":160954,"date":"2025-09-22T07:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/160954\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T07:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:37:08","slug":"saskatchewan-roughriders-sign-linebacker-demouy-kennedy-to-a-future-contract-bgmsportstrax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/160954\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan Roughriders sign linebacker Demouy Kennedy to a future contract \u2013 BGMSportsTrax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgmsportstrax.com\/2024\/08\/21\/saskatchewan-roughriders-place-rb-a-j-ouellette-and-wr-mitchell-picton-on-the-six-game-injured-list\/roughriders-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758526628_436_Roughriders-2.jpg\" alt=\"Saskatchewan Roughriders\" title=\"Roughriders 2\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nSaskatchewan Roughriders<\/p>\n<p>The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed linebacker Demouy Kennedy to a future contract that begins in 2026 on Sunday according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/transactions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CFL Transactions<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>Demouy Kennedy is six foot three and weighs 215 pounds. A native of Theodore, Alabama, Kennedy went undrafted in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Collegiately, Kennedy spent three seasons at <a href=\"https:\/\/rolltide.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/demouy-kennedy\/8091\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama<\/a> (2020-22) playing on special teams, running back, and linebacker. He had seven carries for 16 yards and eight tackles (3 solos, 5 assists) in 24 games for the Crimson Tide. In 2022, he made one tackle (1 assist) in five games before suffering a season-ending knee injury. He was part of two Alabama championship teams in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Then, he transferred to <a href=\"https:\/\/cubuffs.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/demouy-kennedy\/16670\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado<\/a> in 2023 with 13 tackles (4 solos, 9 assists), and two tackles for loss in 11 games for the Buffaloes. He entered the transfer portal after the season, but did not play in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan Roughriders The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed linebacker Demouy Kennedy to a future contract that begins in 2026 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,4400,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-160954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-saskatchewan-roughriders","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160954","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=160954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}