{"id":586466,"date":"2026-04-06T19:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/586466\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:39:08","slug":"veteran-long-snapper-aaron-crawford-signs-with-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/586466\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Long Snapper Aaron Crawford Signs With Riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed National long snapper\u202fAaron\u202fCrawford.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crawford\u202f(6\u20194-250) brings 13 years of CFL experience to the\u00a0Roughriders\u00a0special\u00a0teams\u00a0unit, after spending the\u00a0previous\u00a0five seasons (2021-25) with the Calgary Stampeders. In total, the native of Medicine Hat, Alberta played 68 games for the Stamps, earning 16 special teams tackles and one defensive tackle. He was voted the CFLPA\u2019s all-star long snapper in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crawford was drafted by the Toronto Argonauts in the sixth round, 40th\u202foverall, of the 2012 CFL Draft. He spent time with the Argos, Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers before landing with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats where he played seven seasons (2013-2020) and\u00a0suited up\u00a0for 98 regular season games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All told, Crawford has played 166 career regular season games, 10 playoff games and appeared in two Grey Cup games, making two defensive tackles and 39 special teams tackles.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed National long snapper\u202fAaron\u202fCrawford.\u00a0 Crawford\u202f(6\u20194-250) brings 13 years of CFL experience to the\u00a0Roughriders\u00a0special\u00a0teams\u00a0unit, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-586466","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\/586466","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=586466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}