{"id":653527,"date":"2026-05-07T10:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/653527\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:31:14","slug":"roughriders-sign-lb-ryder-varga-discoverhumboldt-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/653527\/","title":{"rendered":"Roughriders sign LB Ryder Varga &#8211; DiscoverHumboldt.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With rookie camp getting underway on Wednesday in the Canadian Football League, the Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed a veteran with local connections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The green and white agreed to a deal with linebacker Ryder Varga.\u00a0Last week, the Regina native was released by the Toronto Argonauts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories:<\/p>\n<p>Drafted by the BC Lions in the 3rd\u00a0round\u00a0(29th\u00a0overall) of the 2022 CFL Draft, Varga spent two seasons with\u00a0the Lions. In his second campaign in BC, Varga registered 73\u00a0defensive\u00a0tackles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to entering the professional ranks, the linebacker spent five seasons with the University of Regina Rams. He was named First Team All-Canadian and Canada West\u2019s\u00a0Most Outstanding Defensive Player\u00a0as a senior\u00a0in 2022 and\u00a0was a two time\u00a0as Canada West All-Star (2021-22).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 With rookie camp getting underway on Wednesday in the Canadian Football League, the Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-653527","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\/653527","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=653527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}