{"id":337523,"date":"2025-12-10T20:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337523\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T20:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:29:20","slug":"blue-bombers-sign-cam-lawson-to-two-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337523\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bombers sign Cam Lawson to two-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Winnipeg Blue Bombers today announce the club has signed Canadian defensive tackle Cam Lawson to a two-year contract extension.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lawson\u00a0(6-3, 290; Queen\u2019s University; born: October 7, 1998, in Caledon, ON) will return in 2026 for his fifth year and fourth season with the Blue Bombers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He suffered a season-ending knee injury in 2024 and then bounced back this past season to dress for 16 games, making six starts and registering 21 defensive tackles, one sack and one forced fumble.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Originally selected by the Montreal Alouettes in the second round, 16th\u00a0overall, in the 2020 CFL Draft, he appeared in four games with the Als in 2021 before being traded to Winnipeg on draft day in May of 2022 in a deal that saw the Blue Bombers send the 9th\u00a0and 18th\u00a0overall selections to Montreal for Lawson and the 13th\u00a0overall selection.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson has dressed for 53 career CFL games, four with the Alouettes and 49 with the Blue Bombers and has 41 career defensive tackles, seven sacks, an interception and forced fumble.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He played his college ball at Queen\u2019s where he was a two-time OUA Second Team All Star in 2017 and 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Blue Bombers today announce the club has signed Canadian defensive tackle Cam Lawson to a two-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-337523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337523","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=337523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}