{"id":393444,"date":"2026-01-07T07:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393444\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T07:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T07:49:11","slug":"tiger-cats-re-sign-lineman-revenberg-bombers-extend-defensive-back-holm-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393444\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger-Cats re-sign lineman Revenberg; Bombers extend defensive back Holm \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAMILTON \u2013 The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have signed Canadian offensive lineman Brandon Revenberg to a one-year contract, the CFL club announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old from Essex, Ont., earned All-CFL honours for the fifth time in his career last season and was named to the East Division All-CFL team for the sixth time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Revenberg started all 18 regular-season games at left guard, giving passing leader Bo Levi Mitchell protection while opening up lanes for running back Greg Bell to rush for over 1,000 yards.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/660addaf9025a1dc069193c36a86b1fda99209e7dd7bc224ae6bf8943683d6c6.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"1024\" data-pswp-height=\"682\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/660addaf9025a1dc069193c36a86b1fda99209e7dd7bc224ae6bf8943683d6c6.jpg\" alt=\"Hamilton Tiger-Cats Brandon Revenberg takes part in a practice at Tim Hortons Field during the CFL's Grey Cup week in Hamilton on Friday, December 10, 2021. Revenberg has been a model of durability with the Tiger-Cats. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Nick Iwanyshyn\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHamilton Tiger-Cats Brandon Revenberg takes part in a practice at Tim Hortons Field during the CFL&#8217;s Grey Cup week in Hamilton on Friday, December 10, 2021. Revenberg has been a model of durability with the Tiger-Cats. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Nick Iwanyshyn<\/p>\n<p>He was the East Division\u2019s nominee for outstanding lineman for the fourth time.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-four, 300-pound lineman has played in 156 career games over nine seasons since joining the Ticats in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He has missed just two games over his CFL career, neither due to injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Holm signs extension with Bombers<\/p>\n<p>WINNIPEG \u2014 The Blue Bombers have signed veteran American defensive back Evan Holm to a two-year extension.<\/p>\n<p>Holm was named to the league and West Division all-star teams in 2025\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He finished 2025 with 55 tackles, six special teams tackles, two forced fumbles and a team high four interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>He has played 63 games over four seasons with Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Whyte re-signs with Lions<\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 Canadian kicker Sean Whyte has signed a one-year extension with the B.C. Lions.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old veteran from White Rock, B.C., played in his 17th CFL season in 2025 and had a career-high field goal percentage of 95.1 after making good on 39 of 41 attempts.<\/p>\n<p>A West Division All-CFL selection for the third straight season, Whyte enters 2026 as the league\u2019s all-time leader in field goal accuracy at 88.8 per cent (557-of-627) over 241 regular season games with B.C., Montreal and Edmonton, which he helped win a Grey Cup in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>His 2,282 career points and 557 field goals are both ninth on the CFL\u2019s all-time list.<\/p>\n<p>Antwi announces retirement<\/p>\n<p>CALGARY \u2014 Canadian running back Jeshrun Antwi has announced his retirement after five CFL seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Antwi totalled 1,154 career rushing yards and a touchdown in 77 regular-season games with Montreal, B.C. and Calgary, along with 52 catches for 342 yards and 18 special-teams tackles.<\/p>\n<p>He helped the Montreal Alouettes win the Grey Cup in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/onsports-tile-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sign up for Mike McIntyre | On Sports\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Antwi joined his hometown Stampeders for his final CFL season and appeared in nine games.<\/p>\n<p>Before turning pro, Antwi played five years at the University of Calgary and was part of the Dinos\u2019 Vanier Cup-winning team in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He accumulated 2,233 career rushing yards and 18 rushing touchdowns for the Dinos as well as 55 receptions for 479 yards and five TDs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 6, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAMILTON \u2013 The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have signed Canadian offensive lineman Brandon Revenberg to a one-year contract, the CFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-393444","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\/393444","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=393444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}