{"id":668876,"date":"2026-05-14T12:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668876\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:20:24","slug":"riders-sign-1st-round-draft-selection-malcolm-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668876\/","title":{"rendered":"RIDERS SIGN 1st\u202fROUND DRAFT SELECTION MALCOLM BELL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed National defensive back\u202fMalcolm Bell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bell\u202f(6\u20192-188) was selected ninth overall in\u202fthe 2026\u202fCFL\u202fCanadian\u202fDraft. He played in 12 games, making 11 starts, as a senior with Michigan State earning career-highs in tackles (49) and tackles for loss (5), while also posting a team-high six pass breakups and adding one sack. The Montreal native lined up for a career-best 717 snaps at cornerback, the most on the team and was the Spartans\u2019 highest graded defender, per Pro Football Focus, with a grade of 79.3. He recently attended\u202frookie\u202fminicamp with the Cleveland Browns.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to transferring to Michigan State, Bell played four collegiate seasons (2021-24) at the University of Connecticut, suiting up for 33 games and 20 starts. He registered 94 tackles as a Huskie, including five for a loss, alongside 13 pass breakups and one forced fumble.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, we have activated Global Kicker Alex Hale from the retired list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed National defensive back\u202fMalcolm Bell.\u00a0 Bell\u202f(6\u20192-188) was selected ninth overall in\u202fthe 2026\u202fCFL\u202fCanadian\u202fDraft. He played&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-668876","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\/668876","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=668876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}