{"id":397315,"date":"2026-01-09T01:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/397315\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T01:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:31:07","slug":"hamilton-tiger-cats-release-veteran-defensive-lineman-casey-sayles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/397315\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton Tiger-Cats release veteran defensive lineman Casey Sayles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HAMILTON \u2014 The Hamilton Tiger-Cats released American defensive lineman Casey Sayles on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sayles, 30, spent the last three seasons with Hamilton. He appeared in 51 regular-season games, recording 122 tackles, 18 sacks, and one forced fumble. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sayles was an Eastern Division All-CFL selection in 2023 and \u201925. He appeared n 17 regular-season games last year, registering 34 tackles, four sacks, and one forced fumble. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The six-foot-three, 290-pound Sayles began his CFL career with Winnipeg (2021-22).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 8, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAMILTON \u2014 The Hamilton Tiger-Cats released American defensive lineman Casey Sayles on Thursday. Sayles, 30, spent the last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-397315","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\/397315","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=397315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}