{"id":934343,"date":"2026-10-15T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934343\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:20:09","slug":"ottawa-redblacks-release-canadian-receiver-mardner-american-receiver-victor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934343\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Redblacks release Canadian receiver Mardner, American receiver Victor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian receiver Nick Mardner, the second pick of the 2024 CFL draft, was released Thursday by the Ottawa Redblacks.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa also let American receiver Binjimen Victor go.<\/p>\n<p>The Redblacks drafted Mardner following his college career at Auburn.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-six, 208-pound native of Mississauga, Ont., began his American university tenure at Hawaii (2018-21), then transferred to Cincinnati in 2022 before heading to Auburn for a sixth and final season.<\/p>\n<p>Mardner had three catches for 23 yards in nine games this season with Ottawa (0-16).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He registered 26 catches for 300 yards and three touchdowns over 18 contests as a CFL rookie but missed all of 2025 recovering from knee surgery after being injured during an intrasquad scrimmage.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-four, 200-pound Victor had two catches for 32 yards in two games this season with Ottawa. He registered 32 receptions for 331 yards and a touchdown over 15 regular-season contests last year with Edmonton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian receiver Nick Mardner, the second pick of the 2024 CFL draft, was released Thursday by the Ottawa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-934343","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\/934343","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=934343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}