{"id":349251,"date":"2025-12-16T16:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349251\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:28:07","slug":"saskatchewan-roughriders-sign-american-wr-malik-knowles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349251\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan Roughriders sign American WR Malik Knowles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced on Tuesday that the team signed American wide receiver Malik Knowles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Knowles, 25, has spent the past three seasons in the National Football League, seeing practice squad stints with the Minnesota Vikings (2023-24), Green Bay Packers (2024) and San Francisco 49ers (2025).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The former Kansas State wide receiver was not elevated to an active roster in any of his three seasons in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Prior to joining the Vikings as an undrafted free agent, Knowles &#8211; who stands 6-foot-2 and weighs in at 196 pounds &#8211; played an impressive four-year career at Kansas State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He caught 127 passes for 1,867 yards and 14 touchdowns, added 36 rushes for 440 yards with four touchdowns and returned 61 kickoffs for 1,691 yards with another three touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was twice named Second Team All-American and was named All-Big 12 twice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Roughriders are coming off a triumphant season in which they defeated the Montreal Alouettes 25-17 in the 112th Grey Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced on Tuesday that the team signed American wide receiver Malik Knowles. Knowles, 25, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,77833,82],"class_list":["post-349251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-saskatchewan-roughriders-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-106752","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349251","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=349251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}