The BC Lions announced the signing of American defensive back Essang Bassey on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Bassey (5\u201910, 190 lbs)- began his pro career with the Denver Broncos after signing as a non-drafted free agent in 2020. As a rookie, the native of Columbus, Georgia suited up in 14 games with 23 combined tackles. He recorded his first career interception off of Taysom Hill in a game against New Orleans in week 13.<\/p>\n
After beginning 2021 on injured reserve, Bassey was waived by Denver in December and quickly picked up by the Los Angeles Chargers.<\/p>\n
He returned to the Broncos for the start of 2022, dressing in 14 games with 15 combined tackles. Bassey then returned for a second stint with the Chargers to begin 2023 and racked up 13 tackles in 11 games.<\/p>\n
He had training camp stints with the Detroit Lions and Washington Commanders in 2024 and 2025, respectively.<\/p>\n
Bassey suited up at Wake Forest for 52 games from 2016-19. After appearing in all 13 games as a true freshman, he recorded a forced fumble in the Military Bowl against Temple that season. In a 2018 game against Syracuse, Bassey\u2019s five pass breakups were the second-highest single-game total in program history.<\/p>\n
In his career with the Demon Deacons, he finished with 228 total tackles (162 solo, 66 assisted), 50 pass breakups, five interceptions, three fumble recoveries and one sack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BC Lions announced the signing of American defensive back Essang Bassey on Thursday. Bassey (5\u201910, 190 lbs)-…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-578228","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\/578228","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=578228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}