{"id":494453,"date":"2026-02-23T16:44:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494453\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:44:44","slug":"stampeders-sign-receiver-dejon-brissett-to-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494453\/","title":{"rendered":"Stampeders sign receiver Dejon Brissett to two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

CALGARY \u2014 The Calgary Stampeders have signed receiver Dejon Brissett<\/a> to a two-year deal, the team announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Brissett became a free agent on February 10 at noon ET.<\/p>\n

The Mississauga, Ont., product was a two-time Grey Cup winner with the Toronto Argonauts and was named the Most Outstanding Canadian in the Boatmen\u2019s victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the 2024 championship game.<\/p>\n

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Brissett was Toronto\u2019s first-round selection \u2013 second overall \u2013 in the 2020 CFL Draft and he joined the Argos in 2021. He played a total of 71 regular season contests for the Double Blue over the past five seasons and accumulated 136 catches for 1,905 yards and 12 touchdowns.<\/p>\n

The 2025 campaign was Brissett\u2019s most productive as a professional as he set career highs with 65 receptions and 907 receiving yards.<\/p>\n

Brissett was also a contributor on the special teams units during his tenure in Toronto with 18 special teams tackles, eight kickoff returns for 153 yards, four punt returns for 28 yards and a touchdown after recovering a blocked punt.<\/p>\n

Brissett won Grey Cups in 2022 and 2024 with the Argos and was named the top Canadian in the 2024 game after making three catches for 45 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 The Calgary Stampeders have signed receiver Dejon Brissett to a two-year deal, the team announced on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-494453","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\/494453","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=494453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}