KeeSean Johnson is staying put.<\/p>\n
According to a CFL source, the American receiver has agreed to a contract extension with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The source spoke on the condition of anonymity as the Riders haven’t announced the move.<\/p>\n
Johnson, 29, has 89 catches for 1,159 yards and four TDs for the Grey Cup champions last season, earning CFL all-star honours. He was slated to become a free agent next month.<\/p>\n
The Riders also released American receiver Shawn Bane Jr. while signing Canadian defensive back Kerfalla Exum\u00e9 to a extension. Bane Jr. was scheduled to become a free agent Feb. 10.<\/p>\n
He spent three seasons with the Roughriders, registering 146 catches for 1,713 yards and nine TDs in 36 regular-season games. Bane Jr.’s best season was 2023 when he recorded 93 receptions for 1,104 yards with four TDs.<\/p>\n
Bane Jr. began his CFL career with the Calgary Stampeders (2021-22).<\/p>\n
Exum\u00e9, a Montreal native, appeared in all 18 of the club’s regular-season games along with the West final and Grey Cup victory over the Montreal Alouettes in 2025.<\/p>\n
Exum\u00e9 recorded four tackles, eight special-teams tackles and a forced fumble last season.<\/p>\n
Ottawa Redblacks re-sign Canadian offensive lineman Bladek<\/p>\n
OTTAWA \u2014 The Ottawa Redblacks re-signed veteran Canadian offensive lineman Dariusz Bladek to a one-year extension Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Bladek, 31, would’ve become a CFL free agent next month.<\/p>\n
The six-foot-four, 303-pound Baldek started 10-of-11 games he appeared in last season before suffering a season-ending leg injury.<\/p>\n
Bladek has appeared in 100 CFL regular-season games over eight seasons with Ottawa (2024-present), the Toronto Argonauts (2021-23) and Saskatchewan Roughriders (2017-19).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KeeSean Johnson is staying put. According to a CFL source, the American receiver has agreed to a contract…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-439608","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\/439608","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=439608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}