{"id":611534,"date":"2026-04-18T02:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611534\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T02:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:58:15","slug":"bc-lions-add-db-c-j-coldon-to-secondary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611534\/","title":{"rendered":"BC Lions add DB C.J. Coldon to secondary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The BC Lions have signed veteran American defensive back C.J. Coldon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 27-year-old was recently released by the Ottawa Redblacks after spending parts of the last two seasons in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cC.J. is a young, talented defensive back who gives us another weapon on defence. He will be expected to compete right away,\u201d said general manager Ryan Rigmaiden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After signing with Ottawa in September 2024, he appeared in one game that season with seven defensive tackles and a forced fumble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Coldon started 17 games at cornerback in 2025, making 55 defensive tackles, three interceptions and one forced fumble. He previously attended 2024 training camp with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Before moving north, the Illinois native signed with the Minnesota Vikings as a undrafted free agent in 2023 and remained on the practice roster until November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Colden suited up at Wyoming for 24 games from 2018-21 and racked up 112 total tackles (78 solo, 34 assisted), 6.5 tackles for a loss, 17 pass breakups, two interceptions and a pair of fumble recoveries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He transferred to Oklahoma for his senior season, earning All- Big 12 honourable mention after recording 43 total tackles (25 solo, 18 assisted), ten pass breakups and four interceptions in 12 contests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BC Lions have signed veteran American defensive back C.J. Coldon. The 27-year-old was recently released by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[87800,49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-611534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-bc-lions-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-93775","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-canadian-football-league","12":"tag-canadianfootballleague","13":"tag-cfl","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611534","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=611534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}