{"id":378025,"date":"2025-12-30T21:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/378025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T21:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:24:08","slug":"redblacks-re-sign-defensive-back-amari-henderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/378025\/","title":{"rendered":"REDBLACKS re-sign defensive back Amari Henderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced today that the football club has re-signed American defensive back Amari Henderson.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson, 28, played nine games last season for the REDBLACKS, posting 18 tackles and one interception. The 6\u20190, 182-pound native of Charlotte, North Carolina has played 46 games over his four seasons in the CFL with the REDBLACKS (2025) and the Saskatchewan Roughriders (2022-24), registering 127 defensive tackles, three interceptions and two forced fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>The Wake Forest product previously spent time in the NFL with the Minnesota Vikings (2021) and Jacksonville Jaguars (2020). Henderson played 46 games over his four seasons with the Demon Deacons (2016-19), registering 169 total tackles, seven interceptions, 48 passes defended and two fumble recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Le ROUGE et NOIR d\u2019Ottawa ont annonc\u00e9 aujourd\u2019hui que le club de football avait re-sign\u00e9 le demi d\u00e9fensif am\u00e9ricain Amari Henderson.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson, 28 ans, a disput\u00e9 neuf matchs la saison derni\u00e8re pour le ROUGE et NOIR, enregistrant 18 plaqu\u00e9s et une interception. Originaire de Charlotte, en Caroline du Nord, cet athl\u00e8te de 6\u20190 et 182 lbs a disput\u00e9 46 matchs au cours de ses quatre saisons dans la LCF avec le ROUGE et NOIR (2025) et les Roughriders de la Saskatchewan (2022-24), enregistrant 127 plaqu\u00e9s d\u00e9fensifs, trois interceptions et deux fumbles forc\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>Le joueur issu de Wake Forest a jou\u00e9 pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment\u00a0dans le\u00a0NFL avec les Vikings du Minnesota (2021) et les Jaguars de Jacksonville (2020). Henderson a disput\u00e9 46 matchs au cours de ses quatre saisons avec les Demon Deacons (2016-19), enregistrant 169 plaqu\u00e9s au total, sept interceptions, 48 passes d\u00e9fendues et deux fumbles r\u00e9cup\u00e9r\u00e9s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced today that the football club has re-signed American defensive back Amari Henderson. Henderson, 28,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-378025","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\/378025","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=378025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}