{"id":505490,"date":"2026-02-28T15:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505490\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T15:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:25:13","slug":"lions-boost-secondary-by-adding-veteran-defensive-back-jamal-parker-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505490\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions boost secondary by adding veteran defensive back Jamal Parker | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8211; The B.C. Lions have signed defensive back Jamal Parker, the CFL club announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>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>Parker missed the 2024 season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament sustained in training camp.<\/p>\n<p>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>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added a pair of defensive stops in a 28-24 loss to Montreal in the 2023 Grey Cup.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 24, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER &#8211; 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":505491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[201543,3050,2602,49,48,52046,521,52043,52048,522,520,198655,68627,39829,52047,19826,52045,2684,52042,52044,82,39828],"class_list":["post-505490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-110th-grey-cup","tag-american-football","tag-bc-lions","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadian-football-league-teams","tag-canadian-football-leagues","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-football-leagues","tag-grey-cup","tag-gridiron-football","tag-gridiron-football-variants","tag-national-football-league","tag-nfl-seasons","tag-nfl-teams","tag-nfl-teams-seasons","tag-seasons-in-american-football","tag-sports","tag-team-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505490","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=505490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}