OTTAWA \u2014 The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced on Sunday they have release two players, including former All-CFL receiver Eugene Lewis.<\/p>\n
Lewis signed with Ottawa in 2025 and appeared in 24 games with the team, catching 95 passes for 1,233 yards and six majors. That includes a 2025 season where Lewis appeared in all 18 games, catching 75 passes for 1,012 yards and six touchdowns.<\/p>\n
RELATED \u00a0<\/p>\n In 2026, Lewis was part of six games for the REDBLACKS, catching 20 passes for 231 yards as Ottawa searches for its first win.<\/p>\n Overall, the pass-catcher has been named to three All-CFL teams (2021, 2022, 2024). Lewis started his CFL career with the Montreal Alouettes (2017-2022), before joining the Edmonton Elks (2023-2024) and REDBLACKS (2025-2026).<\/p>\n The team also announced they have released American defensive back Shakur Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 The Ottawa REDBLACKS announced on Sunday they have release two players, including former All-CFL receiver Eugene…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-843811","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\/843811","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=843811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u00bb\u00a03 stats that defined Montreal\u2019s Week 9 win over Ottawa<\/a>
\u00bb REDBLACKS relieve Will Fields of coaching duties<\/a>
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