{"id":412616,"date":"2026-01-16T07:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412616\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T07:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:12:06","slug":"ottawa-redblacks-sign-veteran-receiver-lewis-through-2027-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412616\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Redblacks sign veteran receiver Lewis through 2027 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Press &#8211; Jan 15, 2026 \/ 11:44 am | Story: 594386<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fcd1e9d6dc55095668e923933439fe32b7e5087cde0ab59a2e2ef07a099250f2_p4258408.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: The Canadian Press<\/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<p>He was the East Division&#8217;s outstanding player in 2022 and has been named a league-all-star three times (2021, \u201922, \u201924).<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 15, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian Press &#8211; Jan 15, 2026 \/ 11:44 am | Story: 594386 Photo: The Canadian Press OTTAWA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-412616","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\/412616","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=412616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}