{"id":362324,"date":"2025-12-22T19:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/362324\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:44:08","slug":"canadian-nathan-cherry-b-c-lions-agree-to-two-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/362324\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Nathan Cherry, B.C. Lions agree to two-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 Canadian defensive lineman Nathan Cherry has signed a two-year contract extension with the B.C. Lions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cherry was eligible to become a free agent on Feb. 10.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-one, 271-pound lineman enters his fifth season with the team after playing in all 18 of B.C.&#8217;s games in 2025, making four defensive tackles.<\/p>\n<p>He added three tackles in two Grey Cup playoff appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Selected third overall in the 2022 CFL Draft, the Saskatoon native made 28 appearances over his first three seasons with 15 defensive tackles, two sacks and a pair of forced fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>Cherry suited in up 41 games with the Saskatchewan Huskies from 2016-21.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Along with winning Hardy Cups in 2018 and 2019, he registered 46 total tackles (28 solo, 18 assisted), 10 sacks and a fumble recovery. Cherry capped his U Sports career by being named First-Team All-Canadian in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 Canadian defensive lineman Nathan Cherry has signed a two-year contract extension with the B.C. Lions.\u00a0 Cherry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-362324","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362324","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=362324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}