The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced today that the football club has released American linebacker Jovan Santos-Knox.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have the utmost respect for Jovan as a person and as a football player. A few sentences could not put into words what he has meant to our football club both on and off the field,\u201d said Shawn Burke, Vice-President of Football Operations of the Ottawa REDBLACKS. \u201cWith this move today, we felt it was important to do right by him and allow him to get a head start on free agency. We wish him all the best in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Santos-Knox, 31, suited up in 42 games over his three seasons in Ottawa (2023-25), registering 209 total tackles, five quarterback sacks and two interceptions. He was named the REDBLACKS\u2019 nominee for Most Outstanding Defensive Player in 2025. For his career, the native of Waterbury, Connecticut has played 111 games, registering 549 total tackles, 16 quarterback sacks, five interceptions and four forced fumbles.<\/p>\n
Le ROUGE et NOR d\u2019Ottawa a annonc\u00e9 aujourd\u2019hui que le club de football a lib\u00e9r\u00e9 le secondeur am\u00e9ricain\u00a0Jovan Santos-Knox.<\/p>\n
\u00ab Nous avons le plus grand respect pour Jovan en tant que personne et en tant que joueur de football. Quelques phrases ne suffiraient pas \u00e0 exprimer ce qu\u2019il a repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 pour notre club de football, tant sur le terrain qu\u2019en dehors \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Shawn Burke, vice-pr\u00e9sident des op\u00e9rations football de le ROUGE et NOIR d\u2019Ottawa. \u00ab Avec cette d\u00e9cision prise aujourd\u2019hui, nous avons estim\u00e9 qu\u2019il \u00e9tait important de faire ce qu\u2019il fallait pour lui et de lui permettre de prendre une longueur d\u2019avance sur le march\u00e9 des agents libres. Nous lui souhaitons bonne chance pour l\u2019avenir. \u00bb<\/p>\n
Santos-Knox, 31 ans, a disput\u00e9 42 matchs au cours de ses trois saisons \u00e0 Ottawa (2023-25), enregistrant 209 plaqu\u00e9s au total, cinq sacs du quart-arri\u00e8re et deux interceptions. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 nomm\u00e9 candidat de le ROUGE et NOIR pour le titre de joueur d\u00e9fensif par excellence en 2025. Au cours de sa carri\u00e8re, ce natif de Waterbury, dans le Connecticut, a disput\u00e9 111 matchs, enregistrant 549 plaqu\u00e9s, 16 sacs du quart-arri\u00e8re, cinq interceptions et quatre \u00e9chapp\u00e9s forc\u00e9s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced today that the football club has released American linebacker Jovan Santos-Knox. \u201cWe have the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-444983","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\/444983","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=444983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}