{"id":366996,"date":"2025-12-25T00:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366996\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T00:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:27:06","slug":"saskatchewan-roughriders-re-sign-canadian-receiver-samuel-emilus-to-two-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366996\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan Roughriders re-sign Canadian receiver Samuel Emilus to two-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed Canadian receiver Samuel Emilus to a two-year contract extension, the CFL club announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Emilus was named the top Canadian of this year\u2019s Grey Cup after he caught 10 passes for 108 yards in the Roughriders\u2019 25-17 win over the Montreal Alouettes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 28-year-old was also the Roughriders\u2019 top receiver in the West Final, where he had nine receptions for 100 yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The six-foot, 200-pound receiver from Montreal played seven regular-season games in 2025, registering 588 yards with two touchdowns on 37 receptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Emilus was selected in the first round, seventh overall, of the 2022 CFL draft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has 204 receptions for 2,914 yards and 13 touchdowns over 57 career games with the Riders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 24, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed Canadian receiver Samuel Emilus to a two-year contract extension, the CFL club announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-366996","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\/366996","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=366996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}