"Former CFL All-Star Fred Reid joins REDBLACKS as running backs coach"

OTTAWA - The Ottawa REDBLACKS have rounded out their coaching staff, hiring former CFL All-Star Fred Reid as running backs coach for the 2022 season.

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Hailing from Tampa, Florida, the 39 year-old Reid served as running backs coach for the Toronto Argonauts during the 2021 CFL campaign. Despite rushing the fourth-fewest times as a team, last year, the Argonauts ended the season with 1,272 rushing yards, and 10 touchdowns on the ground, the third-highest mark across the league.

As a player, Reid enjoyed a brief stint with the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers, as well as the Mississippi Mudcats, in the second incarnation of ArenaFootball. He then moved on to the CFL, joining the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and seeing his best statistical season under now-REDBLACKS head coach Paul LaPolice in 2010, rushing for 1,396 yards and six touchdowns.

All told, Reid appeared in 83 CFL games from 2007-2011, rushing for 4,451 yards, and 22 touchdowns, to go with 1,214 return yards.