{"id":646436,"date":"2026-05-04T04:11:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/646436\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T04:11:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:11:48","slug":"redblacks-sign-first-overall-pick-giordano-vaccaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/646436\/","title":{"rendered":"REDBLACKS sign first overall pick Giordano Vaccaro"},"content":{"rendered":"

OTTAWA \u2014 The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced on Wednesday they have signed National offensive lineman Giordano Vaccaro.<\/p>\n

Vaccaro was selected by the REDBLACKS with the first overall selection in the 2026 CFL Canadian Draft on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\"CFLCFL CANADIAN DRAFT
\u00bb View full results from the 2026 CFL Canadian Draft<\/a>
\u00bb REDBLACKS select offensive lineman Giordano Vaccaro first overall<\/a>
\u00bb Argos select Queen\u2019s offensive lineman Niklas Henning with second overall pick<\/a>
\u00bb A team-by-team look at the 2026 CFL Canadian Draft<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The six-foot-three, 315-pound offensive lineman finished his collegiate career at Purdue where he suited up in all 12 games for the Boilermakers last season. Prior to heading to the NCAA, Vaccaro spent three seasons at the University of Manitoba, where he saw time at the left tackle and guard positions.<\/p>\n

With the Bisons, the Winnipeg, Manitoba native took home various accolades including the JP Metras as the lineman of the year (2024), Canada West Lineman of the Year (2024), First-Team All-Canadian (2023-24) and Canada West All-Star (2023-24).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced on Wednesday they have signed National offensive lineman Giordano Vaccaro. Vaccaro was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-646436","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\/646436","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=646436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}