{"id":470903,"date":"2026-02-12T20:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470903\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T20:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:50:12","slug":"mad-max-is-back-lions-sign-rouyer-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470903\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Max Is Back | Lions Sign Rouyer To One-year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BC Lions announced today that the team has signed National linebacker Maxime Rouyer through 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Rouyer (6\u20190, 225 lbs)- the veteran special teams foot soldier dressed in eight regular season games in 2025, making a pair of tackles.<\/p>\n<p>In 42 regular season appearances as a Lion since 2022, the native of Troyes, France has made 20 special teams tackles, eight defensive stops and a forced fumble, while also appearing in four playoff contests.<\/p>\n<p>Rouyer was selected fourth overall by Edmonton in the CFL\u2019s first European Draft in 2020 before making 18 appearances with the Elks from 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p>He moved to North America to suit up at McGill from 2015-18 and registered 103 total tackles and 4.5 sacks in 23 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BC Lions announced today that the team has signed National linebacker Maxime Rouyer through 2027. Rouyer (6\u20190,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-470903","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\/470903","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=470903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}