{"id":416528,"date":"2026-01-18T02:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416528\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T02:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:40:13","slug":"ottawa-redblacks-sign-veteran-receiver-lewis-through-2027-season-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416528\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Redblacks sign veteran receiver Lewis through 2027 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>Advertisement<\/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<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 The Ottawa Redblacks signed veteran American receiver Eugene Lewis to a contract extension Thursday that keeps&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,13592,40643,14967,82],"class_list":["post-416528","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-contract-extension","tag-eugene-lewis","tag-ottawa-redblacks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416528","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=416528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}