Jovan Santos-Knox can’t hold back his excitement for the 2025 season with the Ottawa REDBLACKS.

All throughout the off-season, he monitored the moves general manager Shawn Burke was making, hoping he would be next, and on January 28, his wish came true, inking a one-year deal to stay in the nation’s capital.

The wait was anxious, he admitted, but he’s been around long enough to understand the business side of the sport, having moved on from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Edmonton Elks and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the past, each after no more than two seasons.

Entering his third season as a REDBLACK, the excitement for this iteration of the roster has the Waterbury, Connecticut native bouncing off the walls.

“Observing from the outside looking in, kind of like a fan, was exciting,” Santos-Knox said. “Every day there was news, and it just made me more amped, and reassured me to want to come back.”

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