{"id":641099,"date":"2026-05-01T16:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641099\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:09:08","slug":"saskatchewan-roughriders-receiver-picton-announces-his-cfl-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641099\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver Picton announces his CFL retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">REGINA \u2014 Mitch Picton is calling it a career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver announced his retirement Friday. The 30-year-old Regina native played nine seasons with the CFL club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Picton will go out as a champion, having helped the Riders down Montreal 25-17 in the 2025 Grey Cup game at Winnipeg\u2019s Princess Auto Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Saskatchewan selected Picton in the fifth round, No. 37 overall, out of Regina in the 2017 CFL draft. He appeared in 94 career regular-season games, registering 96 catches for 1,081 yards and six touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> Last season he had 20 receptions for 226 yards in 14 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was also active in the community as player ambassador for the Saskatchewan Roughrider Foundation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REGINA \u2014 Mitch Picton is calling it a career. The Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver announced his retirement Friday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-641099","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\/641099","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=641099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}