{"id":843560,"date":"2026-08-03T02:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843560\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T02:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:36:12","slug":"ottawa-redblacks-release-three-time-all-star-wr-geno-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843560\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Redblacks release three-time All-Star WR Geno Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Geno Lewis\u2019 time with the Ottawa Redblacks is over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The three-time CFL All-Star receiver was released by Ottawa on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lewis, 33, had played in six games for the Redblacks this season, hauling in 20 catches for 231 yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The nine-year veteran had signed a contract extension with Ottawa over the winter that would have run through the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lewis joined Ottawa as a free agent ahead of the 2025 campaign, catching 75 passes for 1,012 yards and six touchdowns. It was his sixth career 1,000-yard season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Wilkes-Barre, Penn. native began his CFL career with the Montreal Alouettes in 2017, playing five years there before joining the Edmonton Elks in 2023. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 122 career games, Lewis has 493 catches for 7.504 yards and 47 touchdowns, earning three All-Star selections and the Terry Evanshen Trophy in 2024 as the East Division\u2019s Most Outstanding Player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Redblacks fell to 0-7 under head coach Ryan Dinwiddie on Friday night with a 34-13 loss to the Alouettes in Week 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geno Lewis\u2019 time with the Ottawa Redblacks is over. The three-time CFL All-Star receiver was released by Ottawa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,89888,82],"class_list":["post-843560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-ottawa-redblacks-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-88019","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843560","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=843560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}