{"id":626207,"date":"2026-04-24T19:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626207\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:44:08","slug":"ottawa-redblacks-fined-for-exceeding-2025-salary-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626207\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Redblacks fined for exceeding 2025 salary cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The CFL has levied a fine of $18,002 against the Ottawa Redblacks for exceeding the 2025 Salary Expenditure Cap of $6,062,365. The fine represents a dollar-for-dollar amount equal to the team\u2019s overage of the limit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The violation does not impact the selection order for the 2026 CFL Canadian Draft on Apr. 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Edmonton and Winnipeg hold the Nos. 19 and 20 selections, respectively, as a result of the National Snaps Reward System.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 2026 CFL Canadian Draft will take place on Apr.28, beginning at 7 p.m. ET. The first two rounds will air live on TSN, with rounds 3-8 streaming exclusively on TSN+. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 2026 CFL Global Draft will be conducted on Apr. 29 at 1 p.m. ET, with results announced in real time on CFL.ca.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rookie camps will open on May 6, with training camps following on May 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CFL has levied a fine of $18,002 against the Ottawa Redblacks for exceeding the 2025 Salary Expenditure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,89888,82],"class_list":["post-626207","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-ottawa-redblacks-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-88019","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626207","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=626207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}