{"id":411797,"date":"2026-01-15T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/411797\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:58:08","slug":"ottawa-redblacks-sign-veteran-receiver-lewis-through-2027-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/411797\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Redblacks sign veteran receiver Lewis through 2027 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768514288_373_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJan 15, 2026 | 11:44 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The Ottawa Redblacks signed veteran American receiver Eugene Lewis to a contract extension Thursday that keeps him with the CFL club through the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, 32, was entering the final year of his deal before signing the extension.<\/p>\n<p>He had 75 catches for 1,012 yards and six touchdowns last season, his first with Ottawa. He cracked the 1,000-yard plateau for the second straight year and fourth time in his eight-year CFL career.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis has appeared in 116 career regular-season games with Ottawa (2025), Edmonton (2023-24) and Montreal (2017-19, 2021-22). He has recorded 473 catches for 7,273 yards and 47 TDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Canadian Press Jan 15, 2026 | 11:44 AM OTTAWA \u2014 The Ottawa Redblacks signed veteran American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-411797","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\/411797","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=411797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}