{"id":358507,"date":"2025-12-20T22:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358507\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:30:20","slug":"alouettes-re-sign-canadian-linebacker-tyrell-richards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358507\/","title":{"rendered":"Alouettes re-sign Canadian linebacker Tyrell Richards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Alouettes have signed Canadian linebacker Tyrell Richards to a one-year extension through the 2026 season, the CFL team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old from Brampton, Ont., led the CFL with 30 special teams tackles in 18 games this past season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also recorded eight defensive tackles and forced one fumble.<\/p>\n<p>Richards was selected first overall by the Alouettes at the 2022 CFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Alouettes general manager Danny Maciocia says Richards has become one of the top special teams players in the CFL.<\/p>\n<p>The Alouettes also signed American receiver Austin Watkins Jr. to a two-year deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Alouettes have signed Canadian linebacker Tyrell Richards to a one-year extension through the 2026 season, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-358507","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\/358507","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=358507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}