{"id":449639,"date":"2026-02-02T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449639\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:54:09","slug":"stampeders-sign-running-back-deonta-mcmahon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449639\/","title":{"rendered":"Stampeders sign running back Deonta McMahon"},"content":{"rendered":"

CALGARY \u2014 The Calgary Stampeders have signed American running back Deonta McMahon, the team announced on Monday.<\/p>\n

McMahon played a total of 39 regular season contests over three seasons with the Toronto Argonauts and was a member of the Boatmen\u2019s 111th Grey Cup-championship team. He amassed 1,588 all-purpose yards and scored nine touchdowns with the Argos including 578 rushing, 431 receiving, 518 on kickoff returns and 61 on punt returns.<\/p>\n

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McMahon had a pair of catches for 41 yards in Toronto\u2019s win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Grey Cup.<\/p>\n

Before turning pro, McMahon played three seasons at McNeese State and, as a senior in 2022, he was the Southland Conference\u2019s offensive player of the year and earned first-team all-conference honours as both a running back and a kick returner. He rushed for 1,408 yards \u2013 an average of 128 yards per game \u2013 and scored 14 total touchdowns during his decorated senior season.<\/p>\n

In 27 career games for the Cowboys, McMahon rushed for 2,155 yards and 21 touchdowns and also had 57 catches for 519 yards and two scores as well as 13 kickoff returns for 272 yards. He transferred to McNeese State after two seasons at Butte College in Oroville, Calif. In 2018, he rushed for 1,124 yards and 15 touchdowns for the Roadrunners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 The Calgary Stampeders have signed American running back Deonta McMahon, the team announced on Monday. McMahon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-449639","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\/449639","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=449639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}