{"id":396832,"date":"2026-01-08T20:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/396832\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:31:07","slug":"saskatchewan-roughriders-release-wr-dohnte-meyers-to-pursue-nfl-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/396832\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan Roughriders release WR Dohnte Meyers to pursue NFL opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Saskatchewan Roughriders have released American wide receiver Dohnte Meyers to pursue an NFL opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 25-year-old was a pending free agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Meyers is coming off a breakout 2025 season with the Roughriders, catching 65 receptions for 1,056 yards and eight touchdowns. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The wideout posted a 16.2 average yards per catch and had four games with more than 100 yards receiving, including going 6-for-6 for 156 yards and a touchdown (26.3 yards per catch) in Week 18 against the Ottawa Redblacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In the postseason, Meyers had a crucial 21-yard grab that set up Tommy Nield\u2019s game-winning touchdown in the Western Final against the BC Lions, sending the Roughriders to the Grey Cup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He followed that performance with a perfect 4-for-4 showing for 76 yards in the championship game, helping secure the club\u2019s fifth Grey Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have released American wide receiver Dohnte Meyers to pursue an NFL opportunity. The 25-year-old was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,77833,82],"class_list":["post-396832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-saskatchewan-roughriders-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-106752","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396832","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=396832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}