Roughriders announce signings of former NFL defensive tackle, defensive back

Having lost two defensive tackles in free agency this off-season, the Saskatchewan Roughriders added a new one to their roster Friday.

The CFL team announced the signing of 6-foot-2, 320-pound Miles Brown, a 24-year-old who had stops in the NFL with the Arizona Cardinals, Tennessee Titans and Detroit Lions.

His most productive NFL season was 2019, when he played in nine regular-season games for the Cardinals and made four tackles.

A product of Cheverly, Md., Brown played four seasons at Wofford College, starting 49 of the 50 games he played. He recorded 174 tackles, 38 tackles for loss, 13.5 sacks, two pass deflections and two forced fumbles in his collegiate career.

This off-season, Saskatchewan lost defensive tackles Micah Johnson (Hamilton Tiger-Cats) and Makana Henry (Edmonton Eskimos) as free agents.

Later Friday, the Roughriders also announced the signing of defensive back Josh Nurse.

The 6-foot-3, 200-pounder out of Fayetteville, Ga., was signed by the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent out of the University of Utah in 2020. Nurse played two regular-season games for the Jacksonville Jaguars that season.

Now 25, Nurse signed with the Calgary Stampeders before their training camp in 2021 but didn’t play in any games with them.

Nurse was a special-teams standout at Utah before becoming a starter in his senior season. Before joining the Utes, Nurse attended Blinn College and played six games as a receiver at Georgia Military College in 2016.