{"id":628576,"date":"2026-04-25T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628576\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:06:09","slug":"los-angeles-chargers-selected-canadian-ol-taylor-in-sixth-round-of-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628576\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Chargers selected Canadian OL Taylor in sixth round of NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Another Canadian is off the board at the 2026 NFL Draft as Boston College offensive lineman Logan Taylor has been selected by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/los-angeles-chargers\/315\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/los-angeles-chargers\/315\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> with the 21st pick (202nd overall) in the sixth round. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Taylor, of Lunenburg, N.S., is the third Canadian selected at this year\u2019s draft after Akheem Mesidor also went to the Chargers at pick No. 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Standing at 6-foot-7, 312 pounds, the 24-year-old Taylor started in 36 of 37 games for the Eagles after transferring from Virginia ahead of the 2023 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He served as a team captain in 2025, also earned second-team All-ACC honours with the Eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Canadian is off the board at the 2026 NFL Draft as Boston College offensive lineman Logan Taylor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[712,49,48,92400,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-628576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-los-angeles-chargers-sports-football-team-team-statscom-357","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628576","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=628576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}