Regina, Canada – Former Seahawk defensive tackle Charbel Dabire, a three-year fixture up front for the Wagner College football team and 2018 team captain, has signed a contract extension with the Canadian Football League's (CFL) Saskatchewan Roughriders.
Dabire appeared in all 18 games for the Roughriders in 2023 and posted career-high numbers. Dabire tallied 13 defensive tackles and two sacks, while adding two tackles on special teams. He was named PFF's Special Teams Player of the Week in Week 8.
The 27-year-old was selected by the Riders in the fifth round, 44th overall, of the 2019 CFL Draft and has played 55 career regular season-games and three playoff games. Over four seasons he's registered 37 defensive tackles, three special teams tackles and six sacks.
Though born in West Africa, the powerful 6-1, 300-pound Dabire has deep Canadian ties having lived in Montreal, Calgary during his grade school years before graduating from Toronto's Mount Carmel High School.
During his three-year Seahawk career, Dabire, a popular figure on campus who had the distinction of being named Wagner College's 2018 Homecoming King, saw action in all 33 games, gaining 19 starts. In that time, he recorded 73 career tackles, including 44 solo stops, along with 8.5 tackles for loss, highlighted by two sacks.
As a senior in 2018, he finished the season with a career-best 26 tackles (16 solo), highlighted by a standout performance at Central Connecticut (10/27/18) where he registered a career-high 10 tackles, (nine solo) and returned a fumble, off a blocked punt, 36 yards for a touchdown.
