{"id":641988,"date":"2026-05-02T01:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641988\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T01:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:14:12","slug":"argos-sign-three-members-of-2026-cfl-canadian-draft-class-including-defensive-back-ethan-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641988\/","title":{"rendered":"Argos sign three members of 2026 CFL Canadian Draft Class, including defensive back Ethan John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"elementToProof\" data-ogsb=\"white\">TORONTO \u2013 The Toronto Argonauts Football Club announced on Friday they have signed three Canadians from the 2026 CFL Canadian Draft class, including defensive back Ethan John (Windsor), kicker Nathan Walker (York) and running back Weagbe Mombo (Windsor).<\/p>\n<p data-ogsb=\"white\">John was selected in the second round of the 2026 CFL Canadian Draft.<\/p>\n<p data-ogsb=\"white\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2911459 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777451836_446_CFL-Draft-Stacked-Wordmark.png\"   alt=\"CFL CANADIAN DRAFT\" width=\"152\" height=\"100\" data-uw-rm-alt-original=\"\" data-uw-rm-alt=\"CT\"\/>CFL CANADIAN DRAFT<br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/draft-tracker\/2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">View full results from the 2026 CFL Canadian Draft<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/04\/28\/argonauts-select-niklas-henning-second-overall-in-2026-cfl-canadian-draft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/04\/28\/argonauts-select-niklas-henning-second-overall-in-2026-cfl-canadian-draft\/\" aria-label=\"Argonauts select Queen\u2019s offensive lineman Niklas Henning with second overall pick - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->Argos select Queen\u2019s offensive lineman Niklas Henning with second overall pick<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/04\/28\/a-team-by-team-look-at-the-2026-cfl-canadian-draft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">A team-by-team look at the 2026 CFL Canadian Draft<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p data-ogsb=\"white\">The five-foot-nine, 189-pound defensive back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/03\/27\/top-5-from-every-drill-at-the-cfl-combine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">finished fifth in the 3-cone drill<\/a> at the CFL Combine presented by Anytime Fitness Canada, displaying his impressive athleticism in front of scouts, coaches and general managers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/03\/06\/8-advance-from-invitational-combine-to-cfl-combine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">John was one of the invitees from the 2026 Invitational Combine in Waterloo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-ogsb=\"white\">Walker (57th overall) and Mombo (67th) were also members of the 2026 class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2013 The Toronto Argonauts Football Club announced on Friday they have signed three Canadians from the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-641988","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\/641988","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=641988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}