{"id":494633,"date":"2026-02-23T18:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494633\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:47:09","slug":"bombers-sign-defensive-back-deandre-lamont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494633\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombers sign defensive back Deandre Lamont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG \u2013 The Winnipeg Blue Bombers announced on Friday the club has signed American defensive back Deandre Lamont.<\/p>\n<p>Lamont (five-foot-nine, 185 pounds) signs with the Bombers after three seasons in the CFL (2023-2025), and a five-year collegiate career with Illinois State (2022), and Central Arkansas (2018-2021).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2876544 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769710928_456_FreeAgencyLogo2026-800x642.png\"   alt=\"2026 CFL FREE AGENCY\" width=\"164\" height=\"132\" data-uw-rm-alt-original=\"\" data-uw-rm-alt=\"CT\"\/>2026 CFL FREE AGENCY<br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/02\/10\/a-team-by-team-look-at-2026-cfl-free-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/02\/10\/a-team-by-team-look-at-2026-cfl-free-agency\/\" aria-label=\"A team-by-team look at 2026 CFL Free Agency - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->A team-by-team look at 2026 CFL Free Agency<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/02\/10\/3-impactful-signings-on-day-1-of-cfl-free-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/02\/10\/3-impactful-signings-on-day-1-of-cfl-free-agency\/\" aria-label=\"5 impactful free agency signings so far - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->5 impactful free agency signings so far<\/a><br \/>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/02\/19\/5-noteworthy-canadian-free-agent-signings-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/02\/19\/5-noteworthy-canadian-free-agent-signings-2\/\" aria-label=\"5 noteworthy Canadian free agent signings - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->5 noteworthy Canadian free agent signings<\/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><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lamont has made 39 career CFL starts over three seasons with the Ottawa REDBLACKS, recording 151 defensive tackles, eight special teams tackles, and four interceptions. In his breakout 2024 season, he started all 18 games and registered 86 tackles along with one interception.<\/p>\n<p>Before the CFL, Lamont spent one season at Illinois State, appearing in 11 games and totaling 68 tackles, two sacks, one interception, and three pass breakups. He earned honourable mention All-Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC) honours in 2022. Prior to that, he was named First Team All-Atlantic Sun Conference in 2021 following his final season at Central Arkansas. Over his collegiate career, Lamont recorded 221 total tackles, six interceptions, and two sacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 The Winnipeg Blue Bombers announced on Friday the club has signed American defensive back Deandre Lamont.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-494633","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\/494633","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=494633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}