{"id":798074,"date":"2026-07-13T00:33:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798074\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T00:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:33:36","slug":"argos-acquire-global-punter-james-burnip-in-trade-with-redblacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798074\/","title":{"rendered":"Argos acquire Global punter James Burnip in trade with REDBLACKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2013 The Toronto Argonauts have agreed to terms with the Ottawa REDBLACKS on a trade that sends Global punter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/james-burnip\/184022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ga-category=\"Clicks - Article\" data-ga-action=\"article-player-link\" data-ga-opt-label=\"James Burnip\">James Burnip<\/a> to Toronto in exchange for a conditional 2027 eighth-round CFL Canadian Draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>Burnip (six-foot-six, 235 pounds) signed with Ottawa in January this year after being drafted by the REDBLACKS in the 2025 CFL Global Draft.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED<br \/>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/07\/11\/3-stats-that-defined-winnipegs-week-6-win-over-toronto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3 stats that defined Winnipeg\u2019s Week 6 win over Toronto<\/a><br \/>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/07\/10\/blue-bombers-hold-on-to-defeat-argonauts-at-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Blue Bombers hold on to defeat Argonauts at home<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/plus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Sign up and watch CFL games on CFL+ in the U.S. and Internationally - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/plus\" data-uw-original->Sign up and watch CFL games on CFL+ in the U.S. and Internationally<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Melbourne, Australia native also spent time with the New Orleans Saints in 2025 after being signed by the NFC South team as an undrafted free agent.<\/p>\n<p>The former Alabama Crimson Tide member (2021-2024) finished second in school history with an average of 43.9 yards per punt, and his nearly 9,000 total punt yards rank him third all-time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2013 The Toronto Argonauts have agreed to terms with the Ottawa REDBLACKS on a trade that sends&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-798074","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\/798074","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=798074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}