{"id":627207,"date":"2026-04-25T06:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627207\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:53:14","slug":"riders-sign-all-conference-offensive-lineman-justin-osborne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627207\/","title":{"rendered":"Riders Sign All-conference Offensive Lineman Justin Osborne\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed American\u202foffensive lineman\u202fJustin Osborne.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Osborne\u202f(6\u20195-305) spent the 2025 NFL season with the Cleveland Browns after\u00a0signing\u00a0as an undrafted free agent following the 2025 NFL Draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He began his collegiate career at Auburn in 2019 before transferring to Southern Methodist University, where he played five seasons (2020\u201324). A team captain in both 2023 and 2024, he was part of an offense that ranked sixth nationally in scoring (38.5 points per game) during his final season, while also helping the team allow the third-fewest sacks in the ACC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Osborne earned First Team All-AAC\u00a0honours\u00a0in 2023 after a Second Team\u00a0selection\u00a0in 2022, and was named All-ACC\u00a0Honourable\u00a0Mention in 2024 following SMU\u2019s move to the ACC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Texas native appeared in 59 games, the third-most in program history, making 56\u00a0starts\u00a0across the offensive line at\u00a0centre, guard, and tackle.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed American\u202foffensive lineman\u202fJustin Osborne.\u202f\u00a0 Osborne\u202f(6\u20195-305) spent the 2025 NFL season with the Cleveland Browns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-627207","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\/627207","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=627207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}