{"id":872767,"date":"2026-08-27T01:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872767\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T01:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:30:22","slug":"with-injuries-piling-up-roughriders-add-reinforcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872767\/","title":{"rendered":"With injuries piling up, Roughriders add\u00a0reinforcements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the Saskatchewan Roughriders continue to deal with injuries, the Green and White have added a new face while bringing back a familiar one. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American defensive end Aaron Patrick has rejoined the team after spending 2025 with the club while the Roughriders signed American receiver Shemar Bridges, who was the East Division\u2019s rookie of the year in 2024 with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI got released from Hamilton, and then probably a couple days went by, and I got a call, and was just told to be ready,\u201d said Bridges, 28. \u201cAnd next thing you know, it happened. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Saskatchewan Roughriders continue to deal with injuries, the Green and White have added a new face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[302957,49,48,521,522,276177,276912,276178,158032,520,276176,82],"class_list":["post-872767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-302957","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-category-cfl","tag-category-football","tag-category-saskatchewan-roughriders","tag-category-sports","tag-cfl","tag-leader-post","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872767","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=872767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}