The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced today that the football club has signed global punter\u00a0James Burnip.<\/p>\n
Burnip, 24, most recently spent training camp last year with the New Orleans Saints. The native of Mount Macedon, Victoria, Australia, was selected by the REDBLACKS in the second round, 14th overall in the 2025 CFL Global Draft. The former University of Alabama punter played 55 games over his four seasons with the Crimson Tide (2021-24), posting 201 punts for 8,808 yards (43.8 avg) with a career long of 67 yards. Burnip finished his career second in Alabama history in yards per punt, was a semi-finalist for the Ray Guy award in 2024 and earned All-American honours in 2023 (Pro Football Focus).<\/p>\n
Le ROUGE et NOIR d\u2019Ottawa a annonc\u00e9 aujourd\u2019hui que le club de football avait sign\u00e9 le botteur de d\u00e9gagement international\u00a0James Burnip.<\/p>\n
Burnip, 24 ans, a r\u00e9cemment particip\u00e9 au camp d\u2019entra\u00eenement de le New Orleans Saints l\u2019ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re. Originaire de Mount Macedon, dans l\u2019\u00c9tat de Victoria, en Australie, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 par le ROUGE et NOUR au deuxi\u00e8me tour, 14e au total, lors du rep\u00eachage mondial de la LCF 2025. L\u2019ancien botteur de l\u2019universit\u00e9 d\u2019Alabama a disput\u00e9 55 matchs au cours de ses quatre saisons avec le Crimson Tide (2021-24), enregistrant 201 bott\u00e9s pour 8 808 verges (43,8 en moyenne) avec un record en carri\u00e8re de 67 verges. Burnip a termin\u00e9 sa carri\u00e8re \u00e0 la deuxi\u00e8me place dans l\u2019histoire de l\u2019Alabama pour le nombre de verges par bott\u00e9s, a \u00e9t\u00e9 demi-finaliste du prix Ray Guy en 2024 et a \u00e9t\u00e9 nomm\u00e9 All-American en 2023 (Pro Football Focus).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced today that the football club has signed global punter\u00a0James Burnip. Burnip, 24, most recently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-444262","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\/444262","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=444262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}