{"id":593107,"date":"2026-04-09T19:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593107\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:18:07","slug":"former-cfl-all-star-running-back-william-stanback-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593107\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CFL All-Star Running Back William Stanback Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Running back William Stanback announced his retirement on Instagram on Wednesday. He played last season for the Ottawa Redblacks in what will be his final season.<\/p>\n<p>Stanback has played in 97 CFL regular-season games over 7 seasons. He joined the CFL with the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/cflnewshub.com\/team\/montreal-alouettes\/\" title=\"Montreal Alouettes\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"7665\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Alouettes<\/a> in 2018, where he played through the 2023 season, which saw him finish the year as a Grey Cup Champion. He played for the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/cflnewshub.com\/team\/bc-lions\/\" title=\"BC Lions\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"7666\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BC Lions<\/a> in 2024 before joining Ottawa for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DW4gYTlgT2s\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;ig_rid=e537e5f5-720a-4b62-8768-144994c86dd9\n<\/p>\n<p>He was a big part of Montreal\u2019s Grey Cup run in 2023, rushing for 178 yards and a touchdown and adding 64 receiving yards.<\/p>\n<p>Stanback has rushed 1,004 times for 5,591 yards (5.57 average) and 18 touchdowns over the regular season and caught 188 passes for 1,733 yards and 7 touchdowns. He has added 77 rushes over 7 playoff games for 384 yards (4.99 average) and 2 touchdowns with 17 catches for 159 yards over the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Stanback rushed for over 1,000 yards in 3 separate seasons and was named a CFL All-Star in 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Stanback played for UCF from 2013 to 2015, where he rushed 307 times for 1,152 yards and 16 touchdowns with 27 catches for 244 yards and 3 touchdowns. He finished his collegiate career with Virginia Union in 2016, where he rushed 207 times for 1,299 yards and 15 touchdowns, plus 12 catches for 165 yards and 3 touchdowns over 10 games.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Running back William Stanback announced his retirement on Instagram on Wednesday. He played last season for the Ottawa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-593107","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\/593107","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=593107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}