{"id":473479,"date":"2026-02-14T01:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473479\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:18:07","slug":"riders-sign-4-time-all-conference-offensive-lineman-jaison-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473479\/","title":{"rendered":"Riders Sign 4-time All-conference Offensive Lineman Jaison Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed American offensive lineman\u00a0Jaison Williams.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Williams\u00a0(6\u20194-320)\u00a0signed with the New York Giants following the 2025 NFL Draft and attended training camp with the club.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He spent six collegiate seasons (2019\u201324) at Youngstown State, making 52 starts, including seven as a redshirt freshman in 2019. As a senior in 2024, Williams started all 12 games at right tackle and graded as the program\u2019s top offensive lineman, allowing just one sack while posting a 98% pass protection efficiency rate. As a junior, the Ohio native helped pave the way for running back Jaleel McLaughlin, who averaged 144.4 rushing yards per game and was later named MVFC Offensive Player of the Year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A versatile\u00a0presence up front, Williams has started at every position along the offensive line except\u00a0centre. He is a four-time All-Missouri Valley Football Conference\u00a0selection\u00a0and earned Third-Team All-American\u00a0honours\u00a0as a senior.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed American offensive lineman\u00a0Jaison Williams.\u00a0\u00a0 Williams\u00a0(6\u20194-320)\u00a0signed with the New York Giants following the 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-473479","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\/473479","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=473479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}