The BC Lions announced today that American defensive back Garry Peters has signed a one-year extension, keeping him in black and orange for an eighth season. Peters was eligible to become a free agent on February 10.<\/p>\n
\u201cGarry has proven to be one of the best, most consistent defensive backs in the CFL,\u201d said general manager Ryan Rigmaiden.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s also taken that next step and become a leader for our secondary.\u00a0 As we continue to build our roster, we love knowing GP will be a BC Lion in 2026.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Peters (6\u20190, 200 lbs)-despite seeing his Ironman streak come to an end at 115 games in 2025, the Georgia native was once again a force in the secondary with 49 defensive tackles, three interceptions, six pass knockdowns and a forced fumble across 16 regular season contests. The veteran added six tackles and a pair of pass knockdowns in two Grey Cup Playoff contests.<\/p>\n
Peters sits eighth on the Lions\u2019 all-time list with 381 defensive tackles, while his 19 interceptions put him in 19th spot and six behind Ken Hinton for a place in the top ten. With 120 regular season games as a Lion, the durability master is now in the top 50 amongst all-time Lions.<\/p>\n
He earned All-CFL selections at both the league and division level in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BC Lions announced today that American defensive back Garry Peters has signed a one-year extension, keeping him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-384729","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\/384729","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=384729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}