{"id":470024,"date":"2026-02-12T10:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470024\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:49:16","slug":"ticats-sign-defensive-lineman-charbel-dabire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470024\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticats sign defensive lineman Charbel Dabire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAMILTON \u2014 The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have signed free agent National defensive lineman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/charbel-dabire\/164902\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ga-category=\"Clicks - Article\" data-ga-action=\"article-player-link\" data-ga-opt-label=\"Charbel Dabire\">Charbel Dabire<\/a>, the team announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dabire, 29, spent time with the Saskatchewan Roughriders (2019-2025) after being selected in the fifth round (44th overall) of the 2019 CFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2876544 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FreeAgencyLogo2026-800x642.png\"   alt=\"2026 CFL FREE AGENCY\" width=\"163\" height=\"131\" data-uw-rm-alt-original=\"\" data-uw-rm-alt=\"CT\"\/>2026 CFL FREE AGENCY<br \/>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/fa26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/fa26\/\" aria-label=\"CFL Free Agent Tracker: Follow every move here - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->CFL Free Agent Tracker: Follow every move here<\/a><br \/>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/12\/05\/cfl-cas-top-30-pending-free-agents-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/12\/05\/cfl-cas-top-30-pending-free-agents-12\/\" aria-label=\"CFL.ca\u2019s top 30 pending free agents - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->CFL.ca\u2019s top 30 pending free agents<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/01\/29\/where-every-cfl-team-stands-ahead-of-free-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/01\/29\/where-every-cfl-team-stands-ahead-of-free-agency\/\" aria-label=\"Where every CFL team stands ahead of Free Agency - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->Where every CFL team stands ahead of Free Agency<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/category\/free-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/category\/free-agency\/\" aria-label=\"More 2026 Free Agency news and analysis - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->More 2026 Free Agency news and analysis<\/a><br \/>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/02\/10\/ticats-sign-offensive-lineman-eric-lofton-defensive-lineman-kene-onyeka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/02\/10\/ticats-sign-offensive-lineman-eric-lofton-defensive-lineman-kene-onyeka\/\" aria-label=\"Ticats sign offensive lineman Eric Lofton, defensive lineman Kene Onyeka - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->Ticats sign offensive lineman Eric Lofton, defensive lineman Kene Onyeka<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">RECOVERED \u203c\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sskroughriders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@sskroughriders<\/a> stop a strong Hamilton drive as Charbel Dabire strips the ball and Jameer Thurman recovers!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFLGameday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#CFLGameday<\/a>: LIVE on TSN, CBSSN<br \/>\ud83d\udcf2: Stream on CFL+ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CUjuUzZT1P\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/CUjuUzZT1P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CFL (@CFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CFL\/status\/1805043983447376267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 24, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The six-foot, 300-pound native of Burkina Faso appeared in 58 regular season games, recording 41 defensive tackles, four special teams tackles, two sacks, and one forced fumble, and was a member of Saskatchewan\u2019s Grey Cup championship roster in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Collegiately, Dabire played at New Mexico Military Institute (2015) before transferring to Wagner (2016-2018), where he appeared in 33 games, totaling 73 tackles (47 solo), 2.5 sacks, one pass defended, one forced fumble, and one blocked kick returned for a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>                                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAMILTON \u2014 The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have signed free agent National defensive lineman Charbel Dabire, the team announced on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-470024","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\/470024","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=470024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}