{"id":19629,"date":"2023-05-15T21:01:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T21:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=19629"},"modified":"2023-05-15T21:01:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T21:01:27","slug":"breaking-news-saints-sign-all-xfl-defensive-lineman-jack-heflin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=19629","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Saints sign All-XFL defensive lineman Jack Heflin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p id=\"oboQYz\">The New Orleans Saints have agreed to a contract with former Houston Roughnecks Jack Heflin.  The Illinois native enjoyed a decent college career with three years at Northern Iowa and one year at Iowa. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another XFL alum is back in the NFL: Source says <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Saints?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Saints<\/a> they&#8217;re signing Jack Heflin, the first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Packers?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Packers<\/a> i <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Giants?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Giants<\/a> DL who was with the Houston Roughnecks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Pelissero (@TomPelisero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/1658194729027117063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"bbSp6g\">Heflin signed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmepackingcompany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> after his college career before being cut.  He also had a very brief stint with the Giants before suiting up for the Roughnecks.  Heflin got a chance to shine at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/xfl-football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">XFL<\/a> and took home All-XFL team honors.<\/p>\n<p id=\"q1iVBW\">Heflin has a long journey ahead of him to figure out the practice squad or opening day roster, but if he&#8217;s able, it&#8217;ll be a great story!<\/p>\n<p id=\"ep7bli\">Be sure to follow Canal Street Chronicles on Twitter at @SaintsCSC, like us on Facebook at Canal Street Chronicles, and make sure you&#8217;re subscribed to our YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canalstreetchronicles.com\/2023\/5\/15\/23724555\/breaking-news-saints-sign-all-xfl-defensive-lineman-jack-heflin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints have agreed to a contract with former Houston Roughnecks Jack Heflin. The Illinois native enjoyed a decent college career with three years at Northern Iowa and one year at Iowa. Another XFL alum is back in the NFL: Source says #Saints they&#8217;re signing Jack Heflin, the first #Packers i #Giants DL who was with the Houston Roughnecks. \u2014 Tom Pelissero (@TomPelisero) May 15, 2023 Heflin signed with the Green Bay Packers after his college career before being cut. He also had a very brief stint with the Giants before suiting up for the Roughnecks. Heflin got&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19631,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19629\/revisions\/19631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}