OTTAWA\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced today that the football club has signed American running back\u00a0Greg Bell\u00a0to a two-year contract.<\/p>\n
HEIGHT:\u00a06-0\u00a0|\u00a0WEIGHT:\u00a0200\u00a0lbs |\u00a0BIRTHDAY:\u00a01998-06-16
HOMETOWN:\u00a0Chula Vista, CA |\u00a0SCHOOL:\u00a0San Diego State<\/p>\n
Bell\u00a0is coming off a breakout season in 2025 after taking over the lead-back role in Hamilton halfway through the 2024 season. Last year, Bell posted career highs in carries (184), rushing yards (1,038), receptions (62) and\u00a0receiving yards (426). He was named East All-CFL for the first time in his career following the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreg is a top-tier running back who has big-play capability as a runner and a receiver,\u201d said Head Coach and General Manager Ryan Dinwiddie. \u201cWe\u2019re incredibly excited to have him in our organization and we feel that his vision, explosiveness and ability to make people miss will be an extremely valuable piece of our offence for the next two seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Chula Vista, California native spent his college career with three different schools including Arizona Western (2016-17), Nebraska (2018) and San Diego State (2019-21). After three seasons with the Aztecs, Bell signed with the Detroit Lions as an undrafted free agent (2022) and also spent time with the Pittsburgh Steelers (2023), before signing with the Tiger-Cats in 2024.<\/p>\n
OTTAWA \u2013\u00a0Le ROUGE et NOIR d\u2019Ottawa a annonc\u00e9 aujourd\u2019hui que le club de football a sign\u00e9 un contrat de deux ans avec le demi offensif am\u00e9ricain\u00a0Greg Bell.<\/p>\n
TAILLE :\u00a06-0\u00a0|\u00a0POIDS :\u00a0200 lbs |\u00a0DATE DE NAISSANCE :\u00a01998-06-16
VILLE NATALE :\u00a0Chula Vista, CA |\u00a0UNIVERSIT\u00c9 :\u00a0San Diego State<\/p>\n
\u00ab Greg est un running back de premier plan qui a une grande capacit\u00e9 de jeu en tant que coureur et receveur \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 l\u2019entra\u00eeneur-chef et directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Ryan Dinwiddie. \u00ab Nous sommes extr\u00eamement heureux de l\u2019accueillir dans notre organisation et nous pensons que sa vision, son explosivit\u00e9 et sa capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 \u00e9chapper \u00e0 ses adversaires seront des atouts extr\u00eamement pr\u00e9cieux pour notre attaque au cours des deux prochaines saisons. \u00bb<\/p>\n
Bell\u00a0sort d\u2019une saison exceptionnelle en 2025 apr\u00e8s avoir pris la t\u00eate du classement \u00e0 Hamilton \u00e0 la mi-saison 2024. L\u2019ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re, Bell a enregistr\u00e9 les meilleurs r\u00e9sultats de sa carri\u00e8re en termes de courses (184), de yards au sol (1 038), de r\u00e9ceptions (62) et de verges sur r\u00e9ception (426). \u00c0 l\u2019issue de la saison, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 nomm\u00e9 pour la premi\u00e8re fois de sa carri\u00e8re dans l\u2019\u00e9quipe d\u2019\u00e9toiles de l\u2019Est.<\/p>\n
Originaire de Chula Vista, en Californie, il a fait ses \u00e9tudes universitaires dans trois \u00e9tablissements diff\u00e9rents, notamment Arizona Western (2016-2017), Nebraska (2018) et San Diego State (2019-2021). Apr\u00e8s trois saisons avec les Aztecs, Bell a sign\u00e9 avec les Lions de Detroit en tant qu\u2019agent libre non rep\u00each\u00e9 (2022) et a \u00e9galement pass\u00e9 du temps avec les Steelers de Pittsburgh (2023), avant de signer avec les Tiger-Cats en 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced today that the football club has signed American running back\u00a0Greg Bell\u00a0to a two-year contract.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-478097","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\/478097","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=478097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}