{"id":482925,"date":"2026-02-18T11:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482925\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:48:11","slug":"ottawa-redblacks-sign-veteran-offensive-linemen-gregor-mackellar-martez-ivey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482925\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Redblacks sign veteran offensive linemen Gregor MacKellar, Martez Ivey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Press &#8211; Feb 17, 2026 \/ 2:57 pm | Story: 599585<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/fd02c0860a262cd10635bde9d9c19fdec832ab4c06d6826e661707ffb48494eb_p4264438.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"452\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The Ottawa Redblacks shored up their offensive line Tuesday by signing Canadian Gregor MacKellar and American Martez Ivey.<\/p>\n<p>Both players were CFL free agents and spent last season with the Edmonton Elks.<\/p>\n<p>MacKellar, of Timberlea, N.S., played all 18 regular-season games in 2025 with Edmonton. The six-foot-four 331-pound Canadian has appeared in 61 career CFL regular-season games with the Elks and Toronto Argonauts (2022-24), earning Grey Cup titles with the Double Blue in 2022 and &#8217;24.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-four 305-pound Ivey spent the last four seasons with Edmonton after starting his CFL career with Toronto in 2021. Ivey has appeared in 67 regular-season games over his CFL tenure and earned All-CFL West Division honours in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 17, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian Press &#8211; Feb 17, 2026 \/ 2:57 pm | Story: 599585 Photo: The Canadian Press OTTAWA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-482925","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\/482925","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=482925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}