{"id":916298,"date":"2026-10-01T07:16:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916298\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T07:16:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:16:30","slug":"roughriders-acquire-kicker-brett-lauther-from-redblacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916298\/","title":{"rendered":"Roughriders acquire kicker Brett Lauther from Redblacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Saskatchewan Roughriders have brought back a familiar face.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, the day of the CFL\u2019s trade deadline, the Roughriders acquired veteran kicker Brett Lauther from the Ottawa Redblacks in exchange for a fifth-round pick in the 2027 CFL Draft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 12 games this season with Ottawa, the 35-year-old has made 32 of 35 field goals (94.1 per cent) for the Redblacks after signing with the team <a href=\"https:\/\/leaderpost.com\/sports\/football\/saskatchewan-roughriders\/sports-former-roughriders-kicker-lauther-moving-forward-after-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">following his release from the Roughriders in February after a statistically down year.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have brought back a familiar face. On Wednesday, the day of the CFL\u2019s trade deadline,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[315946,49,48,521,522,276177,276912,276178,158032,520,276176,82],"class_list":["post-916298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-315946","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-category-cfl","tag-category-football","tag-category-saskatchewan-roughriders","tag-category-sports","tag-cfl","tag-leader-post","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916298","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=916298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}