The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed American linebacker\u00a0Aubrey Miller Jr.\u00a0to a one-year contract extension.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Miller Jr.\u00a0(6\u20191-229) played nine regular seasons games for the Roughriders in 2025, posting 14 defensive tackles and five special teams tackles. The 26-year-old also suited up for the Western Final and the 112th\u00a0Grey Cup, earning three special\u00a0teams\u00a0tackles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Miller Jr. joined the Roughriders in August 2024 and appeared in seven games. He also played five games with the Edmonton Elks, recording a combined 14 special teams tackles between the two teams. Prior to arriving in the CFL, he attended training camp with the Miami Dolphins, where he appeared in two preseason games and made two tackles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Tennessee native\u00a0played 26 games over two seasons at\u202fJackson State University\u202f(2021-22). He registered 226 total tackles, including 24 tackles-for-loss, nine sacks and six forced fumbles. His stellar senior season saw him named the Southwestern Athletic Conference\u2019s Defensive Player of the Year and earned him an invitation to the Senior Bowl.\u00a0Miller Jr.\u00a0was also named to the Athlon Sports FCS All-America First Team\u202fand American Football Coaches Association FCS All-America Second Team. Miller Jr. contributed to the Tigers undefeated regular season and\u202fthe team\u2019s second consecutive Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Championship in 2022.\u00a0He\u00a0began his college career at the University of Missouri, where he played 22 games on\u00a0defence\u00a0and special teams and made seven tackles.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed American linebacker\u00a0Aubrey Miller Jr.\u00a0to a one-year contract extension.\u00a0\u00a0 Miller Jr.\u00a0(6\u20191-229) played nine regular…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-450573","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\/450573","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=450573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}