The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced the following transactions today:<\/p>\n
SIGNED:\u00a0<\/p>\n
National kicker Lewis Ward
HEIGHT:\u00a05-5\u00a0|\u00a0WEIGHT:\u00a0175 lbs |\u00a0BIRTHDAY:\u00a01992-09-02
HOMETOWN:\u00a0Kingston, ON\u00a0|\u00a0SCHOOL:\u00a0Ottawa<\/p>\n
Ward played all 18 games last season for the REDBLACKS, converting 35 of 46 field goal attempts (76.1%), including a long of 50 yards. For his career, Ward has played 117 games, posting 300 field goals on 347 attempts (86.5%) with a career long of 56 yards\u2026 Most recently, Ward spent time on the practice roster with the Montreal Alouettes.<\/p>\n
The University of Ottawa product set a professional football record when he converted 69 consecutive field goals across the 2018 and 2019 seasons. Ward, who was born in the United Kingdom but raised in Kingston, Ontario, has earned various accolades in his career, including CFL Most Outstanding Rookie (2018), Most Outstanding Special Teams Player (2018), and All-CFL and All-CFL East (2018).<\/p>\n
American running back Kevin Harris
HEIGHT:\u00a05-10\u00a0|\u00a0WEIGHT:\u00a0225 lbs |\u00a0BIRTHDAY:\u00a02000-11-17
HOMETOWN:\u00a0Hinesville, GA\u00a0|\u00a0SCHOOL:\u00a0South Carolina<\/p>\n
Harris played nine games over two seasons in the National Football League with the New England Patriots (2022-23), posting 34 carries for 117 yards and a touchdown, while adding three receptions for 58 yards. Harris, who also spent time with the Jacksonville Jaguars (2024), was originally selected by the Patriots in the sixth round, 183rd overall, in the 2022 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n
The Hinesville, Georgia native played 28 games over three seasons at the University of South Carolina (2019-21), where he posted 358 carries for 1,976 yards and 23 touchdowns. Harris earned first-team All-SEC honours in 2020.<\/p>\n
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Le ROUGE et NOIR d\u2019Ottawa a effectu\u00e9 les transactions suivantes:<\/p>\n
Le botteur national Lewis Ward
TAILLE : 5-5 | POIDS : 175 lbs | DATE DE NAISSANCE : 1992-09-02
VILLE NATALE : Kingston, ON | UNIVERSIT\u00c9: Ottawa<\/p>\n
Ward a disput\u00e9 l\u2019int\u00e9gralit\u00e9 des 18 matchs de la saison derni\u00e8re avec le ROUGE ET NOIR, r\u00e9ussissant 35 de ses 46 placements (76,1 %), dont un de 50 yards. Au cours de sa carri\u00e8re, Ward a disput\u00e9 117 matchs, r\u00e9ussissant 300 de ses 347 placements (86,5 %), avec un record personnel de 56 yards. Plus r\u00e9cemment, Ward a fait partie de l\u2019\u00e9quipe d\u2019entra\u00eenement des Alouettes de Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n
Ce joueur issu de l\u2019universit\u00e9 d\u2019Ottawa a \u00e9tabli un record dans le football professionnel en r\u00e9ussissant 69 bott\u00e9s de placement cons\u00e9cutifs au cours des saisons 2018 et 2019. N\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni mais ayant grandi \u00e0 Kingston, en Ontario, Ward a remport\u00e9 de nombreuses distinctions au cours de sa carri\u00e8re, notamment celles de \u00ab recrue par excellence de la LCF \u00bb (2018), de \u00ab joueur par excellence sur les unit\u00e9s sp\u00e9ciales \u00bb (2018), ainsi que sa s\u00e9lection dans les \u00ab \u00e9quipes d\u2019\u00e9toiles de la LCF \u00bb et de la \u00ab\u00a0 \u00e9quipes d\u2019\u00e9toiles des divison Est de la LCF \u00bb (2018).<\/p>\n
Le demi offensif Am\u00e9ricain l<\/p>\n
Kevin Harris
TAILLE : 5-10 | POIDS : 225 lbs | DATE DE NAISSANCE : 2000-11-17
VILLE NATALE : Hinesville, GA | UNIVERSIT\u00c9 : South Carolina<\/p>\n
Harris a disput\u00e9 neuf matchs en deux saisons dans la Ligue nationale de football am\u00e9ricain (NFL) avec les Patriots de la New England (2022-23), totalisant 34 courses pour 117 yards et un touch\u00e9, ainsi que trois r\u00e9ceptions pour 58 verges. Harris, qui a \u00e9galement jou\u00e9 avec les Jaguars de Jacksonville (2024), avait initialement \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 par les Patriots au sixi\u00e8me tour, en 183e position, lors de la draft 2022 de la NFL.<\/p>\n
Originaire de Hinesville, en G\u00e9orgie, il a disput\u00e9 28 matchs en trois saisons \u00e0 South Carolina (2019-21), o\u00f9 il a totalis\u00e9 358 courses pour 1 976 verges et 23 touch\u00e9s. Harris a \u00e9t\u00e9 nomm\u00e9 dans la premi\u00e8re \u00e9quipe All-SEC en 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced the following transactions today: SIGNED:\u00a0 National kicker Lewis WardHEIGHT:\u00a05-5\u00a0|\u00a0WEIGHT:\u00a0175 lbs |\u00a0BIRTHDAY:\u00a01992-09-02HOMETOWN:\u00a0Kingston, ON\u00a0|\u00a0SCHOOL:\u00a0Ottawa Ward played…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-827369","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\/827369","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=827369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}