{"id":305653,"date":"2025-11-25T09:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305653\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:44:10","slug":"hamilton-tiger-cats-sign-defensive-lineman-branson-deen-bgmsportstrax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305653\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton Tiger-Cats sign defensive lineman Branson Deen \u2013 BGMSportsTrax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgmsportstrax.com\/2024\/08\/26\/hamilton-tiger-cats-release-punter-kaare-vedvik\/hamilton-tiger-cats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764063850_631_Hamilton-Tiger-Cats.jpg\" alt=\"Hamilton Tiger-Cats\" title=\"Hamilton Tiger-Cats\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nHamilton Tiger-Cats<\/p>\n<p>The Hamilton Tiger-Cats signed defensive lineman Brandon Deen on Monday according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/transactions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CFL Transactions<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>Branson Deen is six foot one and weighs 298 pounds. The 25-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana, signed with the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent on May 10, 2024. In 2024, Deen made four tackles (3 solos, 1 assist) in three preseason games. He would later appear in one regular-season game. The Bills released him on April 17, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Collegiately, Deen spent four seasons at <a href=\"https:\/\/purduesports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/player\/branson-deen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purdue<\/a> (2019-22) with 74 tackles (48 solos, 26 assists), 15.5 tackles for loss, 7.5 sacks, one pass breakup, and one forced fumble in 39 games for the Boilermakers. He was named a two-time All-Big Ten Honorable Mention.<\/p>\n<p>Then, he transferred to <a href=\"https:\/\/miamihurricanes.com\/roster\/branson-deen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami (FL)<\/a> in 2023 with 18 tackles (6 solos, 12 assists), 5.5 tackles for loss, and 2.5 sacks in 11 games for the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamilton Tiger-Cats The Hamilton Tiger-Cats signed defensive lineman Brandon Deen on Monday according to the CFL Transactions page.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,15655,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-305653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-hamilton-tiger-cats","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305653","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=305653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}