{"id":785724,"date":"2026-07-07T09:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785724\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:13:15","slug":"redblacks-sign-national-defensive-back-eric-cumberbatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785724\/","title":{"rendered":"REDBLACKS sign National defensive back Eric Cumberbatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA- The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced on Monday they have signed National defensive back Eric Cumberbatch.<\/p>\n<p>The Alexandria, ON native was selected by the REDBLACKS with the 42nd pick in the 2024 CFL Canadian Draft out of the University of Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED<br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/07\/05\/taylor-elgersma-leads-bombers-comeback-win-over-ticats-on-fanduel-canada-day-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Taylor Elgersma leads Bombers\u2019 comeback win over Ticats<\/a><br \/>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/james-butler\/164855\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ga-category=\"Clicks - Article\" data-ga-action=\"article-player-link\" data-ga-opt-label=\"James Butler\">James Butler<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/07\/04\/james-butler-delivers-for-first-lions-victory-on-fanduel-canada-day-weekend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0delivers in BC victory over Elks on FanDuel Canada Day Weekend<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/mathew-sexton\/166504\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ga-category=\"Clicks - Article\" data-ga-action=\"article-player-link\" data-ga-opt-label=\"Mathew Sexton\">Mathew Sexton<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/07\/03\/mathew-sextons-return-td-lifts-roughriders-past-redblacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u2019s return TD lifts Roughriders past REDBLACKS<\/a><br \/>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/07\/03\/adams-jr-s-seven-total-tds-power-stampeders-over-argonauts-to-open-fanduel-canada-day-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Adams Jr.\u2019s seven TDs power Stamps over Argos to open FanDuel Canada Day Weekend<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cumberbatch appeared in 11 games with the REDBLACKS in 2025, registering one defensive tackle and one special teams tackle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA- The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced on Monday they have signed National defensive back Eric Cumberbatch. The Alexandria, ON&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-785724","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\/785724","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=785724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}