{"id":627292,"date":"2026-04-25T07:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627292\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:53:10","slug":"cfl-fines-ottawa-redblacks-18002-for-violating-2025-salary-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627292\/","title":{"rendered":"CFL fines Ottawa Redblacks $18,002 for violating 2025 salary cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777103590_650_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Canadian Football League logo on a football at opening day of CFL training camp in Guelph, Ont., on Sunday, May 11, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Nick Iwanyshyn<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tApr 24, 2026 | 1:59 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 The CFL fined the Ottawa Redblacks $18,002 on Friday for violating the league\u2019s salary cap last season.<\/p>\n<p>The fine equals the amount by which the team exceeded the cap of $6,062,365.<\/p>\n<p>The violation doesn\u2019t impact the selection order for the 2026 CFL draft Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p>Ottawa is scheduled to make the first selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian Football League logo on a football at opening day of CFL training camp in Guelph, Ont., on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-627292","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\/627292","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=627292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}