{"id":391631,"date":"2026-01-06T11:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/391631\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:36:20","slug":"defensive-lineman-micah-johnson-moves-from-player-to-coach-with-roughriders-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/391631\/","title":{"rendered":"Defensive lineman Micah Johnson moves from player to coach with Roughriders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/06cb2166-9ed4-4a82-8798-c9d42d999dcb.webp\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Micah Johnson is making the move from player to coach with the Roughriders. (Saskatchewan Roughriders)<\/p>\n<p>By CKOM<\/p>\n<p>defensive line coach<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJan 5, 2026 | 9:52 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>After 13 seasons as a player in the CFL, defensive lineman Micah Johnson is ready to hang up his cleats and pick up a whistle.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time Grey Cup champion was signed by the Riders as a free agent in 2019 and played 80 games for the team over five seasons. But just because he won\u2019t be on the field in 2026, doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s done with football. Johnson, who moved to Regina along with his family on a permanent basis in 2023, is taking on the role of defensive line coach for the Roughriders.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Johnson became the first 37-year-old defensive player to earn All-CFL honours. But while Johnson\u2019s statistics as a player are impressive \u2013 with six sacks and 20 defensive tackles last season \u2013 the team noted that his impact on the Green and White goes far beyond his stat lines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoutinely commanding double \u2013 and even triple-team attention, he consistently freed up teammates to make plays of their own. Most recently, this influence helped the Club rank third in the CFL in sacks in 2025 and second in the West in sacks in 2024,\u201d the CFL club said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Micah Johnson is making the move from player to coach with the Roughriders. (Saskatchewan Roughriders) By CKOM defensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-391631","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\/391631","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=391631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}