{"id":486639,"date":"2026-02-20T02:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486639\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T02:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:16:10","slug":"wolitarsky-signs-one-day-deal-with-winnipeg-so-he-can-retire-with-blue-bombers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486639\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolitarsky signs one-day deal with Winnipeg so he can retire with Blue Bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Press &#8211; Feb 19, 2026 \/ 8:52 am | Story: 599794<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7b0db2b105f54c60079fbe27ab4eed4bcae941e92e1452bda78794c75eca61e7_p4264682.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"442\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>WINNIPEG \u2014 Drew Wolitarsky retired Thursday as a member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran receiver signed a one-year deal with Winnipeg, allowing him to call it a career with the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Wolitarsky, 30, spent seven of his eight CFL seasons with Winnipeg (2017-19, 2021-24). He was with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats last year, suiting up for two games.<\/p>\n<p>Wolitarsky won two Grey Cups with Winnipeg (2019, 2021). He recorded 227 catches for 2,954 yards and 18 touchdowns in 96 regular-season games with the club.<\/p>\n<p>The California native played collegiately at the University of Minnesota. But Winnipeg selected him in the 2017 CFL supplemental draft after discovering he qualified as a Canadian because his mother was born in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 19, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian Press &#8211; Feb 19, 2026 \/ 8:52 am | Story: 599794 Photo: The Canadian Press WINNIPEG&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-486639","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\/486639","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=486639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}