The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed five players from the 2026 Canadian CFL Draft:<\/p>\n
Dylan\u00a0Djete\u00a0(Wide Receiver \u2013 Alabama State) \u2013 2nd round, 18th overall\u00a0<\/p>\n
Darius Bell\u00a0(Offensive Lineman \u2013 East Carolina) \u2013 3rd round, 29th overall\u00a0<\/p>\n
Osasere Odemwingie\u00a0(Linebacker \u2013 University of Calgary) \u2013 4th round, 38th overall\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jez Janvier\u00a0(Offensive Lineman \u2013 Southern Mississippi) \u2013 5th round, 47th overall\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shemar McBean\u00a0(Wide Receiver \u2013 University of British Columbia) \u2013 7th round, 65th overall\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Djete\u00a0(6\u20190-185)\u00a0spent his senior\u00a0season (2025)\u00a0at Alabama State, making 28 catches for 422 yards and four touchdowns over 12 games. He spent the previous three years (2022\u20132024) at Wofford College, where he caught 56 passes for 772 yards and four touchdowns across 31 games.\u00a0Djete, who completed the 40-yard dash in 4.6 seconds at the 2026 CFL Combine, is from L\u00e9vis, Quebec.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Bell\u00a0(6\u20195-300)\u00a0played the last two seasons (2024\u201325) at East Carolina University, suiting up for 21 games and making 19 starts as a Pirate. The versatile lineman made six starts at left guard as a junior before transitioning to\u00a0centre\u00a0in his senior year, allowing just three sacks over that time. In 2025, he helped the Pirates\u2019 offence average\u00a0449.0 yards\u00a0of total offence per game (13th nationally), including 176.3 rushing yards per game. He is a two-time Go Bowling Military Bowl champion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prior to ECU, he spent three collegiate seasons (2021\u201323) at Maine, appearing in 18 games and making 16 starts across the line, including five at right guard as a redshirt freshman and nine at left tackle as a sophomore.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Odemwingie\u00a0(6\u20190-220)\u00a0spent his collegiate career at the University of Calgary (2022\u20132025). He suited up for 31 games\u00a0at linebacker\u00a0with the Dinos, registering 253 defensive tackles (171 solo), 15 tackles for loss, and three sacks. In his final Canada West season, he recorded 62 defensive tackles (38 solo), four tackles for loss, and one sack, following a stellar 2024 season in which he made 82 tackles (56 solo), four tackles for loss, and one sack. Odemwingie also competed in the 2025 East-West Bowl, where he had two solo tackles and a pass breakup.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Janvier\u00a0(6\u20195-314)\u00a0played his senior collegiate season at Southern Mississippi, appearing in six games, after spending four years at Eastern Michigan. He dressed for\u00a026 games at Eastern Michigan,\u00a0playing on\u00a0both the offensive and defensive lines during that period. After switching to the offensive line in 2024, he appeared in nine games (starting five) without surrendering a sack. The Montreal-born Janvier dressed for 11 games as an offensive lineman in 2022 before suiting up for seven contests on\u00a0defence\u00a0the following year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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McBean\u00a0(5\u201910-195)\u00a0played four collegiate seasons at UBC (2022\u20132025), appearing in 41 games.\u00a0Over that time, he caught 158 passes for\u00a02,477 yards\u00a0and scored 13 touchdowns.\u00a0In his senior season (2025), McBean appeared in nine games, recording 49 receptions for\u00a0792 yards\u00a0and four touchdowns. He competed in the 2025 East-West Bowl, where he had three catches for\u00a0142 yards\u00a0and one touchdown. The Calgary, Alberta native was named a Canada West All-Conference receiver in 2025 and earned All-Conference\u00a0honours\u00a0as both a receiver and returner in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed five players from the 2026 Canadian CFL Draft: Dylan\u00a0Djete\u00a0(Wide Receiver \u2013 Alabama State)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-647806","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\/647806","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=647806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}