The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced today that the football club has re-signed global defensive lineman\u00a0Blessman Ta\u2019ala.<\/p>\n
Ta\u2019ala, 26, played 17 games last season for the Ottawa REDBLACKS, registering 16 defensive tackles and four quarterback sacks. The American Samoa product has played 47 games over three seasons with the REDBLACKS (2023-25), registering 30 total tackles, including 29 defensive tackles, six quarterback sacks and one forced fumble. He was originally selected by Ottawa with the first overall pick in the 2023 CFL Global Draft after a successful collegiate career at the University of Hawaii.<\/p>\n
Le ROUGE et NOIR d\u2019Ottawa a annonc\u00e9 aujourd\u2019hui que le club de football a re-sign\u00e9 le joueur de ligne d\u00e9fensive international\u00a0Blessman Ta\u2019ala.<\/p>\n
Ta\u2019ala, 26 ans, a disput\u00e9 17 matchs la saison derni\u00e8re pour le ROUGE et NOIR d\u2019Ottawa, enregistrant 16 plaquages d\u00e9fensifs et quatre sacs du quart-arri\u00e8re. Originaire des Samoa am\u00e9ricaines, il a disput\u00e9 47 matchs en trois saisons avec le ROUGE et NOIR (2023-25), enregistrant 30 plaqu\u00e9s au total, dont 29 plaqu\u00e9s d\u00e9fensifs, six sacs du quart-arri\u00e8re et un \u00e9chapp\u00e9 forc\u00e9. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 par Ottawa en premi\u00e8re position lors du rep\u00eachage mondial de la LCF en 2023, apr\u00e8s une brillante carri\u00e8re universitaire \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Hawa\u00ef.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced today that the football club has re-signed global defensive lineman\u00a0Blessman Ta\u2019ala. Ta\u2019ala, 26, played…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-459523","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\/459523","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=459523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}