{"id":457363,"date":"2026-02-06T09:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/457363\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:58:12","slug":"ottawa-redblacks-release-defensive-back-dawson-pierre-bgmsportstrax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/457363\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Redblacks release defensive back Dawson Pierre \u2013 BGMSportsTrax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgmsportstrax.com\/2024\/08\/28\/ottawa-redblacks-sign-wide-receiver-maurice-ffrench\/ottawa-redblacks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ottawa-Redblacks.jpg\" alt=\"Ottawa Redblacks\" title=\"Ottawa Redblacks\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nOttawa Redblacks<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa Redblacks released defensive back Dawson Pierre on Wednesday according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/transactions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CFL Transactions<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/dawson-pierre\/168795\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dawson Pierre<\/a> is six foot two and weighs 219 pounds. The 25-year-old from Longueuil, Quebec, made one tackle on special teams in six games in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa Redblacks drafted Pierre in the third round (22nd pick) in the 2024 CFL Draft. In 2024, he made four tackles and one forced fumble in nine games.<\/p>\n<p>Collegiately, Pierre played four seasons at Concordia (2020-23) with 81 tackles (62 solos, 19 assists), one tackle for loss, one sack, three interceptions, one forced fumble, and one pass breakup in 23 games for the Stingers.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Pierre made 26 tackles (20 solos, 6 assists), one tackle for loss, one sack, one forced fumble, and one pass breakup in six games. Pierre was named an RSEQ All-Star in 2022.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa Redblacks The Ottawa Redblacks released defensive back Dawson Pierre on Wednesday according to the CFL Transactions page.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,14967,82],"class_list":["post-457363","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-ottawa-redblacks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457363","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=457363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}