{"id":499977,"date":"2026-02-26T03:53:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499977\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T03:53:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:53:34","slug":"lions-boost-secondary-by-adding-veteran-defensive-back-jamal-parker-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499977\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions boost secondary by adding veteran defensive back Jamal Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">VANCOUVER \u2014 The B.C. Lions have signed defensive back Jamal Parker, the CFL club announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 28-year-old from Pennsauken, N.J., had 36 defensive tackles, one interception, and a 60-yard fumble return touchdown in 11 games with Winnipeg last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Parker missed the 2024 season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament sustained in training camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had 50 defensive tackles, 11 special teams stops, one interception and a sack across 21 regular-season games with the Bombers over his first two CFL seasons in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Parker made his playoff debut in the 2022 Western final before recording four defensive tackles in a 24-23 Grey Cup loss to Toronto the next week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He added a pair of defensive stops in a 28-24 loss to Montreal in the 2023 Grey Cup.\u2028<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 24, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 The B.C. Lions have signed defensive back Jamal Parker, the CFL club announced Tuesday. Terms of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-499977","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\/499977","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=499977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}