{"id":707591,"date":"2026-06-01T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707591\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:35:08","slug":"wide-receiver-from-chatham-makes-cfl-practice-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707591\/","title":{"rendered":"Wide receiver from Chatham makes CFL practice squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Jordan&#8217;s dream of playing professional football is one step closer to becoming a reality.<\/p>\n<p>The wide receiver from Chatham was added to the Ottawa Redblacks practice roster.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old caught two passes for 37 yards in the Redblacks 27-3 pre-season win over the Montreal Alouettes on Friday, May 29.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa opens the CFL regular season on Saturday, June 6\u00a0when they host the Edmonton Elks.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan just wrapped up a\u00a0historic university career with the Laurier Golden Hawks,\u00a0winning the U SPORTS Hec Creighton Trophy, the he Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Most Valuable Player, and the President&#8217;s Award from Laurier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethan Jordan&#8217;s dream of playing professional football is one step closer to becoming a reality. The wide receiver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-707591","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\/707591","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=707591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}