The Ottawa Redblacks showed up to work on Monday still dealing with the trade that sent defensive lineman Lorenzo Mauldin IV to Calgary.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For defensive lineman Mike Wakefield it meant explaining to his son why “Uncle Lozo” won\u2019t be around anymore, while linebacker Jovan Santos-Knox had to say goodbye to a close friend.<\/p>\n
“I think everyone was a little shocked and you know disappointed because we built some great relationships with Lozo,” said Santos-Knox. “He\u2019s one of the best teammates I\u2019ve ever had. Just a great player, a guy you want to be playing with.”<\/p>\n
Mauldin was traded Sunday to the Stampeders for a fourth-round pick in the 2026 CFL draft.<\/p>\n
Through 14 games this season, Mauldin, who joined the Redblacks before the 2022 season, has recorded 26 tackles, including two tackles for loss, two sacks and three knockdowns.<\/p>\n
In his first season with the Redblacks, Mauldin had a franchise-record 16 sacks and was named the CFL’s outstanding defensive player.<\/p>\n
Redblacks head coach Bob Dyce had high praise for his former lineman.<\/p>\n
“I cannot thank him enough for his time here in Ottawa,” said Dyce. \u201cHe is a player who gave everything that he had to this organization, and certainly a very tough thing to see him go. You know, it\u2019s a shitty, sorry, that\u2019s a tough part of this business.”<\/p>\n
Dyce, who chose to wear his sunglasses while being interviewed indoors, took a lengthy pause before responding when asked if he had been consulted about the trade.<\/p>\n
“Shawn (general manager Shawn Burke) and I work together on everything,” Dyce said.<\/p>\n
With a league-worst 4-10 record the Redblacks playoff chances were already slim, and this latest move makes the road that much more difficult. Ottawa is coming off a bye week that followed a 26-18 loss to Winnipeg.<\/p>\n
Ottawa hosts the league-leading Saskatchewan Roughriders (10-4) Friday night and needs to win all four of its remaining games if it has any hopes of salvaging the season.<\/p>\n
Dyce said the focus for everyone right now is Friday night and not to look any further ahead.<\/p>\n
“We have to move forward and correct the things that need to be corrected,” said Dyce. “And make sure that the things we\u2019re doing well, we’re doing them better.”<\/p>\n
Mauldin’s spot will be filled by 24-year-old Chase McGowan.<\/p>\n
“From the whole time he\u2019s been here he\u2019s been someone we liked,” Dyce said. “He\u2019s got a good motor. Plays a run equally as hard as he plays the pass and plays within the framework of the defence.”<\/p>\n
With the trade deadline set for Wednesday at 3:59 p.m. ET, the Redblacks are well aware there could be additional changes to the roster.<\/p>\n
“We focus on what\u2019s in front of us,” Dyce said. “We\u2019ve got a game plan that we focus on and we\u2019re focused on making sure we get better here every day.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Redblacks showed up to work on Monday still dealing with the trade that sent defensive lineman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-178590","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178590","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=178590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}