{"id":335499,"date":"2025-12-09T22:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335499\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:44:07","slug":"fullback-albert-awachie-returns-for-9th-season-as-a-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335499\/","title":{"rendered":"Fullback Albert Awachie Returns For 9th Season As A Rider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed National fullback\u202fAlbert Awachie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Awachie\u202f(6\u20193-262) returns to the Roughriders for a ninth CFL season, having played 14 regular season games in 2025 plus the Western Final and 112th\u202fGrey Cup. The Toronto native started his CFL career in Green and White in 2017 and has played 98 games over eight seasons, 91 with the Roughriders and seven with the Argonauts (in 2024). He\u2019s tallied a career 17 special teams tackles as an integral part of the Riders\u2019 special teams unit. A reliable blocker on offence, Awachie has also caught 12 career passes for 86 yards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto native spent three collegiate seasons with the University of Toronto and played 22 games at both receiver and defensive back.\u202f While with the Varsity Blues, Awachie recorded 22 tackles and made 14 receptions for 145 yards.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed National fullback\u202fAlbert Awachie.\u00a0 Awachie\u202f(6\u20193-262) returns to the Roughriders for a ninth CFL season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-335499","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\/335499","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=335499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}