{"id":846158,"date":"2026-08-04T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846158\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:40:09","slug":"former-new-england-patriots-qb-zappe-added-to-saskatchewan-roughriders-negotiation-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846158\/","title":{"rendered":"Former New England Patriots QB Zappe added to Saskatchewan Roughriders negotiation list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Saskatchewan Roughriders added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/bailey-zappe\/undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/bailey-zappe\/undefined\" target=\"_blank\">Bailey Zappe<\/a>, a quarterback with three years of National Football League experience, to their negotiation list on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 27-year-old Zappe is currently on the practice squad of the NFL\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/new-york-jets\/undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/new-york-jets\/undefined\" target=\"_blank\">New York Jets<\/a>; he has not appeared on an active roster in the NFL since the 2024 season, where he made one start for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/cleveland-browns\/undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/cleveland-browns\/undefined\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Browns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Zappe was originally drafted in the fourth round of the 2022 NFL Draft (137th overall) by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/new-england-patriots\/undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/new-england-patriots\/undefined\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a>, and he spent two seasons in New England before joining the Browns. He has also spent time on the practice squads of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/kansas-city-chiefs\/undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/kansas-city-chiefs\/undefined\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> (two stints) and Browns (one stint).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Over 15 career NFL games (nine starts), Zappe has a record of 4-5 with 2,223 yards passing and 12 touchdowns against 14 interceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Zappe joins presumptive regular-season starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/geno-smith\/undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/geno-smith\/undefined\" target=\"_blank\">Geno Smith<\/a> in the Jets QB room in the preseason alongside rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/cade-klubnik-1065376\/undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/cade-klubnik-1065376\/undefined\" target=\"_blank\">Cade Klubnik<\/a> and second-year man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/brady-cook\/undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/brady-cook\/undefined\" target=\"_blank\">Brady Cook<\/a>. NFL teams tend to carry two active quarterbacks on the gameday roster and one quarterback on the practice squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Zappe, a native of Victoria, Tex., played four college seasons with Houston Christian and Western Kentucky before he was taken in the draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders added Bailey Zappe, a quarterback with three years of National Football League experience, to their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,77833,82],"class_list":["post-846158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-saskatchewan-roughriders-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-106752","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846158","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=846158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}