{"id":423609,"date":"2026-01-21T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/423609\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:45:18","slug":"riders-add-pass-rusher-desmond-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/423609\/","title":{"rendered":"Riders Add Pass Rusher Desmond Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed American defensive lineman\u00a0Desmond Evans.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Evans\u00a0(6\u20195-265) was signed by the Tennessee Titans as an undrafted free agent following the 2025 NFL Draft and played three preseason games. He spent five collegiate seasons (2020-24) at the University of North Carolina, appearing in 55 games as a Tar Heel \u2013 including 10 as a true freshman. Over that time, he registered 124 defensive tackles, including 21 for a loss, nine sacks, six pass deflections and two fumble recoveries, setting collegiate career highs in defensive tackles (38), tackles for loss (10) and sacks (5) as a senior in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed American defensive lineman\u00a0Desmond Evans.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Evans\u00a0(6\u20195-265) was signed by the Tennessee Titans as an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-423609","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423609","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=423609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}