{"id":103647,"date":"2025-08-28T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103647\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:48:07","slug":"saskatchewan-roughriders-sign-american-lb-chris-russell-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103647\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan Roughriders sign American LB Chris Russell Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed free agent American LB Chris Russell Jr. Russell Jr. had been in training camp with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats before his release.<\/p>\n<p>The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed free agent American LB Chris Russell Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Russell Jr. had been in training camp with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats before his release.<\/p>\n<p>Before playing in the CFL, the six-foot-one, 235-pound linebacker had been with the UFL\u2019s Memphis Showboats.<\/p>\n<p>The Dyersburg, Tennessee native previously spent time on Green Bay\u2019s practice roster after signing with the Packers as an undrafted free agent in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to turning pro, Russell Jr. appeared in 58 games over five seasons at Texas A&amp;M, where he registered 112 total tackles (59 solo), 10 tackles for a loss, five sacks, one interception, one forced fumble, two fumble recoveries and a blocked kick.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed free agent American LB Chris Russell Jr. Russell Jr. had been in training&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,4400,82],"class_list":["post-103647","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-saskatchewan-roughriders","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103647","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=103647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}