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Ottawa native Mitchell Baines has signed a free-agent contract with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, the Canadian Football League team announced Monday.

Baines, who turned 25 on Sunday, spent the past five seasons with the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees. He caught 125 passes for 1,889 yards and 16 touchdowns over 29 games.

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Rhe 6-2, 215-pound Baines was a second-team all-Canadian and a first-team Ontario University Athletics all-star in 2016 after leading all Canadian university players with 984 receiving yards on 65 receptions, and he ranked third with eight touchdown catches.

He was eligible for the 2016 CFL college draft, but was not selected.