{"id":393077,"date":"2026-01-07T03:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393077\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T03:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:38:11","slug":"source-meyers-signs-deal-with-cincinnati-bengals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393077\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: Meyers signs deal with Cincinnati Bengals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted January 6, 2026 4:12 pm<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated January 6, 2026 4:13 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>REGINA \u2013 Quarterback Trevor Harris has lost one of his favourite targets.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Receiver Dohnte Meyers, who led the Saskatchewan Roughriders with eight TD grabs last season, reached an agreement with the NFL\u2019s Cincinnati Bengals on Tuesday, according to a CFL source. Contract details weren\u2019t immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati was one of five NFL teams to work Meyers out since the end of the 2025 CFL season. 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He was Saskatchewan\u2019s second-leading receiver behind KeeSean Johnson (86 receptions, 1,159 yards, four TDs).<\/p>\n<p>Meyers recorded three catches for 40 yards in Saskatchewan\u2019s 24-21 West Division final win over the B.C. Lions before registering four receptions for 76 yards in the Riders\u2019 25-17 Grey Cup victory over the Montreal Alouettes. The 25-year-old native of Brooklyn, N.Y., had 24 receptions for 349 yards and a touchdown in four games with Saskatchewan in 2024, his first season in the CFL.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Canadian Press The Canadian Press Posted January 6, 2026 4:12 pm Updated January 6, 2026 4:13&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,943,48,521,522,520,27682,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-393077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary-stampeders","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-canadian-football-league","12":"tag-canadianfootballleague","13":"tag-cfl","14":"tag-saskatchewan-news","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393077","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=393077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}