{"id":62119,"date":"2025-08-11T18:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/62119\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T18:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:57:06","slug":"saskatchewan-roughriders-ink-2025-global-draft-first-rounder-sylvain-yondjouen-to-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/62119\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan Roughriders ink 2025 Global Draft first-rounder Sylvain Yondjouen to deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saskatchewan Roughriders have bolstered their defence with the signing of lineman Sylvain Yondjouen.<\/p>\n<p>Yondjouen, 25, was the sixth overall pick in the 2025 Canadian Football League Global Draft out of Georgia Tech University.<\/p>\n<p>The Ruisbroek, Belgium native spent six seasons with the Yellow Jackets, starting 13 games games while posting 76 defensive tackles, six sacks, and one forced fumble across 52 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>During his redshirt senior year in 2024, Yondjouen paced the team with seven quarterback hurries and five pass breakups, also adding six tackles for loss.<\/p>\n<p>Following the 2025 NFL Draft, Yondjouen accepted a mini-camp offer from the Carolina Panthers, but now heads north of the border to provide a boost to Corey Mace\u2019s CFL-best Riders.<\/p>\n<p>Under Mace, Saskatchewan has allowed the fewest points (174), rushing yards (527), and total yardage (2,780) in the league this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Roughriders hold the best record in the CFL at 7-1 as they get set to take on the East Division-leading Hamilton Tiger-Cats in Week 11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have bolstered their defence with the signing of lineman Sylvain Yondjouen. Yondjouen, 25, was the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-62119","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\/62119","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=62119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}