{"id":573893,"date":"2026-03-31T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573893\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:13:08","slug":"stampeders-sign-running-back-returner-tyreik-mcallister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573893\/","title":{"rendered":"Stampeders sign running back\/returner Tyreik McAllister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyreik McAllister is back in the CFL.<\/p>\n<p>The American running back\/returner signed with the Calgary Stampeders on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The five-foot-10, 185-pound McAllister spent the 2023 season with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, appearing in 16 regular-season games. He registered 41 kickoff returns for 1,037 yards, 56 punt returns for 602 yards and seven missed-field-goal returns for 408 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>He also had 27 catches for 364 yards and two touchdowns while running 13 times for 52 yards. McAllister&#8217;s 2,463 all-purpose yards led the CFL, as was his 25.3-yard average on kickoffs, and he was Hamilton&#8217;s nominee for the league&#8217;s top special-teams performer.<\/p>\n<p>McAllister signed with the NFL&#8217;s Las Vegas Raiders in 2024 and after scoring two touchdowns during the pre-season he made three regular-season appearances. McAllister re-signed with the Raiders in January 2025 but was released May 12.<\/p>\n<p>He was most recently under contract with the Columbus Aviators of the United Football League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyreik McAllister is back in the CFL. The American running back\/returner signed with the Calgary Stampeders on Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-573893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573893","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=573893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}