{"id":655901,"date":"2026-05-08T11:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655901\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:49:19","slug":"etsus-jacolby-criswell-going-pro-signs-with-canadian-football-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655901\/","title":{"rendered":"ETSU\u2019s Jacolby Criswell going pro, signs with Canadian Football League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) \u2014 East Tennessee State University (ETSU) football team\u2019s former quarterback, Jacolby Criswell, has signed on to play at the professional level with the Canadian Football League (CFL), ETSU announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A news release from ETSU said Criswell will join the Calgary Stampeders.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>ETSU said Criswell played in a total of eight games for the Bucs last year, making four starts.<\/p>\n<p>In his debut as a Buc, he completed five of eight passes for 34 yards and rushed for 46 more yards in ETSU\u2019s win over Murray State. He tossed three touchdowns in road games and threw for a season-high 271 yards in a win over rival Western Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Criswell finished the season 85-for-138 passing (61.59%) for 1,130 yards with nine touchdowns. Even though he missed four games, according to ETSU, Criswell finished fourth on the team with 277 rushing yards, and he averaged 4.9 yards per carry.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjhl.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJHL | Tri-Cities News &amp; Weather.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJHL | Tri-Cities News &amp;amp&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJHL | Tri-Cities News &amp; Weather. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) \u2014 East Tennessee State University (ETSU) football team\u2019s former quarterback, Jacolby Criswell, has signed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,943,48,521,522,520,242988,204441,186324,82],"class_list":["post-655901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-calgary-stampeders","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-etsu","tag-football-team","tag-jacolby-criswell","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655901","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=655901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}