{"id":647780,"date":"2026-05-04T19:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/647780\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:21:09","slug":"ottawa-redblacks-release-veteran-canadian-tight-end-fullback-marco-dubois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/647780\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Redblacks release veteran Canadian tight end\/fullback Marco Dubois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The Ottawa Redblacks released veteran Canadian tight end\/fullback Marco Dubois on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Dubois, 31, of LaSalle, Que., spent seven seasons with Ottawa. Over 120 regular-season games, he had 22 catches for 331 yards and a TD while adding 33 special-teams tackles.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Redblacks selected Dubois in the second round, No. 13 overall, in the 2018 CFL draft out of Laval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarco was a true professional throughout his time here,\u201d Shawn Burke, Ottawa&#8217;s vice-president of football operations. \u201cHis dedication to this club, his leadership and the effort he brought every single day set the bar for everyone around him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thank Marco for everything he brought to our organization on and off the field over the past seven seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 4, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 The Ottawa Redblacks released veteran Canadian tight end\/fullback Marco Dubois on Monday. Dubois, 31, of LaSalle,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,240970,20739,14967,101255,944],"class_list":["post-647780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-marco-dubois","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-redblacks","tag-shawn-burke","tag-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647780","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=647780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}