{"id":659669,"date":"2026-05-10T06:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/659669\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T06:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:16:15","slug":"ottawa-redblacks-sign-dl-bryce-cage-release-16-players-bgmsportstrax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/659669\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Redblacks sign DL Bryce Cage, release 16 players \u2013 BGMSportsTrax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgmsportstrax.com\/2024\/08\/28\/ottawa-redblacks-sign-wide-receiver-maurice-ffrench\/ottawa-redblacks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ottawa-Redblacks.jpg\" alt=\"Ottawa Redblacks\" title=\"Ottawa Redblacks\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nOttawa Redblacks<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa Redblacks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawaredblacks.com\/2026\/05\/09\/redblacks-transactions-may-9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed<\/a> defensive lineman Bryce Cage on Saturday, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/transactions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CFL Transactions<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>Bryce Cage is six foot five and weighs 270 pounds. The 23-year-old from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, began his collegiate career at <a href=\"https:\/\/lionsports.net\/sports\/football\/roster\/bryce-cage\/9057\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southeastern Louisiana University<\/a> (2021-22) with 29 tackles (15 solos, 14 assists), nine tackles for loss, 5.5 sacks, and one forced fumble in 16 games for the Lions.<\/p>\n<p>Next, he transferred to <a href=\"https:\/\/txst.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/bryce-cage\/10420\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas State<\/a> in 2023 with six tackles (3 solos, 3 assists) and one tackle for loss in nine games for the Bobcats. Then, he transferred to <a href=\"https:\/\/gsutigers.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/bryce-cage\/7362\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grambling State<\/a> (2024-25) with 112 tackles (61 solos, 51 assists), 26.5 tackles for loss, nine sacks, and one forced fumble in 24 games for the Tigers. In 2025, he made a career-high 63 tackles (36 solos, 27 assists), 15.5 tackles for loss, and five sacks in 12 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Redblacks released the following players: quarterback Matt Morrissey, running backs Julian Gray and Marquez Cooper, wide receivers T.J. Speight, Latreal Jones, and Mathew Sexton, offensive linemen Gabe Brown and Chaz Neal, defensive linemen T.J. Jackson, Marcel Walker-Burgess, Jordan Smith, and Josh Pearcy, linebacker Bo Spearman, and defensive backs Jordan Wright, Quenton Meeks, and Iverson Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa Redblacks The Ottawa Redblacks signed defensive lineman Bryce Cage on Saturday, according to the CFL Transactions page.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,14967,82],"class_list":["post-659669","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-ottawa-redblacks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659669","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=659669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}