{"id":628002,"date":"2026-04-25T15:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628002\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:57:17","slug":"defensive-lineman-romick-retires-after-11-seasons-with-ottawa-redblacks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628002\/","title":{"rendered":"Defensive lineman Romick retires after 11 seasons with Ottawa Redblacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 Nigel Romick, a defensive lineman and original Ottawa Redblack, announced his retirement from professional football Friday after 11 seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Romick spent his entire CFL career with Ottawa, playing in 128 games from 2014 to 2025 and helping the Redblacks to three Grey Cup appearances, including a championship in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Thunder Bay, Ont., native recorded 113 career special teams tackles, along with 17 defensive tackles and one sack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement, Redblacks vice president of football operations Shawn Burke praised Romick for his professionalism, toughness, and leadership <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Romick was drafted by the Redblacks in the third round, 23rd overall, in the 2014 CFL draft before Ottawa\u2019s inaugural season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He said he looks forward to supporting the Redblacks as a fan in retirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 24, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Nigel Romick, a defensive lineman and original Ottawa Redblack, announced his retirement from professional football Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-628002","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\/628002","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=628002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}