{"id":816562,"date":"2026-07-21T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/816562\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:00:09","slug":"argonauts-sign-veteran-defensive-lineman-shawn-lemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/816562\/","title":{"rendered":"Argonauts sign veteran defensive lineman Shawn Lemon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Argonauts are bringing back one of the top pass rushers in CFL history.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Lemon, 37, has signed with the Argos, the CFL team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon played for Toronto from 2017-19, registering 28 sacks.<\/p>\n<p>He played the past three years for the Montreal Alouettes, though he suited up for only nine games over the past two seasons while serving a suspension for betting on CFL games, including one he played in with the Calgary Stampeders in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Akron NCAA product has played for eight of nine CFL teams, with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats the only squad missing from his resum\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon has 103 career sacks, putting him in the top 15 in the league. He is a three-time Grey Cup champion and was the West finalist for most outstanding defensive player as a Stampeder in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Argos also announced they have re-signed defensive lineman DeWayne\u00a0Hendrix after recently releasing the American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Argonauts are bringing back one of the top pass rushers in CFL history. Shawn Lemon, 37,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-816562","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\/816562","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=816562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}