{"id":489278,"date":"2026-02-21T05:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/489278\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:41:11","slug":"lions-add-former-kansas-jayhawks-lb-marvin-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/489278\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions Add Former Kansas Jayhawks LB Marvin Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The BC Lions announced today that the team has signed American linebacker Marvin Grant.<\/p>\n<p>Grant (6\u20192, 210 lbs)- moves north after attending rookie mini-camp with the Kansas City Chiefs last season. The Detroit native suited up with the Purdie Boilermakers from 2019-21, appearing in 20 games with 92 total tackles (68 solo, 24 assisted). He earned Academic All-Big Ten honours in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Grant then transferred to Kansas for his final three years of eligibility and registered 163 total tackles (109 solo, 54 assisted), ten tackles for a loss, eight pass breakups, three sacks and a pair of forced fumbles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0The BC Lions announced today that the team has signed American linebacker Marvin Grant. Grant (6\u20192, 210 lbs)-&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-489278","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\/489278","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=489278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}