{"id":396670,"date":"2026-01-08T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/396670\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:51:08","slug":"winnipeg-blue-bombers-re-sign-canadian-lb-tanner-cadwallader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/396670\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Blue Bombers re-sign Canadian LB Tanner Cadwallader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have agreed to terms on a two-year contract with Canadian linebacker Tanner Cadwallader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was scheduled to become a free agent in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 5-foot-11, 216-pound defender has been a steady presence on Winnipeg\u2019s special teams since being selected in the seventh round (64th overall) in the 2020 CFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 28-year-old has recorded 68 special teams tackles in his five seasons, while recording 14 in 2025, the third most on the club after Michael Ayers (23) and Jaylen Smith (22).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Wilfrid Laurier alum has finished top three in special teams tackles for the Blue Bombers in each year from 2022-25, as his career total of 68 currently ranks 12th in club history, four shy of moving into the Top 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Georgetown, Ont. native has not missed a single game since his rookie season in 2021, suiting up for all 86 regular-season games and every playoff contest over that span.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have agreed to terms on a two-year contract with Canadian linebacker Tanner Cadwallader. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,82,75056],"class_list":["post-396670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports","tag-winnipeg-blue-bombers-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-110380"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396670","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=396670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}