{"id":194873,"date":"2025-10-07T09:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/194873\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:04:14","slug":"riders-add-veteran-c-f-l-defensive-back-lyon-with-injuries-ravaging-the-secondary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/194873\/","title":{"rendered":"Riders Add Veteran C-F-L Defensive Back Lyon With Injuries Ravaging the Secondary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The news was ominous from Regina media observers Monday morning as the Saskatchewan Roughriders returned to the practice field.<\/p>\n

Neither Rolan Milligan Junior or Marcus Sayles were on the Mosaic Stadium turf, after both left Friday\u2019s 20-13 win in Ottawa. With that in mind, the Green and White announced the signing of veteran C-F-L defensive back Nafees Lyon Monday morning. The five-foot-nine, 184-pound product of Charlotte, North Carolina, played 10 regular-season games with Montreal in 2024. The 28-year-old has played 21 regular-season C-F-L games over four seasons as a member of the Alouettes and Edmonton. Meanwhile, Canadian defensive backs Tevaughn Campbell and Jaxon Ford were on the field working out while Brett Lauther was kicking. The 11-4 Riders are home to 5-11 Toronto on Friday night. Following is the news release from the Roughriders on the Lyon signing\u2026..<\/p>\n

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ROUGHRIDERS\u00a0ADD DB NAFEES LYON<\/p>\n

The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed American defensive back\u00a0Nafees Lyon.<\/p>\n

Lyon\u00a0(5\u20199-184) joins the Roughriders with four years of CFL experience, spending time with the Edmonton Elks (2021-22) before being traded to the Montreal Alouettes in August of his sophomore campaign. He went on to spend the next two-and-a-half seasons (2022-24) in Montreal, registering 115 total career tackles, one sack, five interceptions, and a forced fumble over 30 games played. Lyon was part of the 2023 Grey Cup Championship team in Montreal.<\/p>\n

Collegiately, Lyon spent five seasons (2016-2020) at UNC Charlotte, suiting up for 40 games. The 28-year-old recorded 137 total tackles, including five for a loss, two interceptions, 11 pass deflections, two forced fumbles, and two fumble recoveries. He also returned 19 punts for 95 yards over his final two seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The news was ominous from Regina media observers Monday morning as the Saskatchewan Roughriders returned to the practice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-194873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194873","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=194873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}