{"id":453364,"date":"2026-02-04T13:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/453364\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:34:08","slug":"canadian-born-tight-end-luke-willson-spent-eight-seasons-in-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/453364\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian-born tight end Luke Willson spent eight seasons in NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NFL player Luke Willson returns to the Super Bowl on Sunday as an analyst with TSN. A sketch:<\/p>\n<p>Hometown: LaSalle, Ont.<\/p>\n<p>NFL career: Drafted by Seattle Seahawks in the fifth round, No 158 overall, of the 2013 NFL draft. Played eight seasons as a tight end with Seattle (2013-17, 2019-20), Detroit (2018) and Baltimore (2020).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Statistics: Willson had 111 catches for 1,307 yards with 11 TDs in 102 career games (52 starts).<\/p>\n<p>Super Bowls: Appeared in two with Seattle, winning once (43-8 over Denver in 2014). The Seahawks lost 28-24 to New England in the Super Bowl the following season.<\/p>\n<p>College: Rice University.<\/p>\n<p>CFL: Selected in the fifth round, No. 32 overall, of the 2012 CFL draft by the Toronto Argonauts but never played football professionally in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 4, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NFL player Luke Willson returns to the Super Bowl on Sunday as an analyst with TSN. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[186325,5462,49,48,1990,8823,36552,19260,514,1739,82,19501],"class_list":["post-453364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-2013-nfl-draft","tag-baltimore","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-denver","tag-detroit","tag-luke-willson","tag-new-england","tag-nfl","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-sports","tag-super-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453364","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=453364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}