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<\/p>\nThe Canadian Press – Jan 8, 2026 \/ 1:56 pm | Story: 593155<\/p>\n
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HAMILTON \u2014 The Hamilton Tiger-Cats released American defensive lineman Casey Sayles on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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
Sayles was an Eastern Division All-CFL selection in 2023 and ’25. He appeared n 17 regular-season games last year, registering 34 tackles, four sacks, and one forced fumble. <\/p>\n
The six-foot-three, 290-pound Sayles began his CFL career with Winnipeg (2021-22).<\/p>\n
Hamilton also released Global punter Nik Constantinou and American receiver-returner Isaiah Wooden Sr. to pursue NFL opportunities. Constantinou is expected to sign soon with the Cleveland Browns.<\/p>\n
Constantinou, 26, average 47.6 yards over 192 punts in two seasons (36 regular-season games) with Hamilton. The Ticats selected the Australian in the first round, fifth overall, of the ’24 Global draft.<\/p>\n
Wooden, 25, spent parts of the last two seasons with Hamilton. He appeared in 14 regular-season games, returning 38 punts for 570 yards (15-yard average) and one touchdown as well as 45 kickoffs for 1,185 yards (26.3-yard average) and two TDs.<\/p>\n
Wooden also had two catches for 22 yards. <\/p>\n
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Blue Bombers sign veteran Cadwallader to contract extension<\/p>\n
WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers signed veteran Canadian linebacker Tanner Cadwallader to a two-year contract extension Thursday.<\/p>\n
The five-foot-11, 216-pound native of Georgetown, Ont., was slated to become a free agent in February.<\/p>\n
Cadwallader returns for a sixth season with Winnipeg. The former Wilfrid Laurier standout was third on the club in special-teams tackles last year with 14.<\/p>\n
Cadwallader, 28, hasn’t missed a game with Winnipeg since his rookie season in 2021. He has registered 68 career special-teams tackles to stand 12th in club history, just four short of cracking the top-10.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 8, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian Press – Jan 8, 2026 \/ 1:56 pm | Story: 593155 Photo: The Canadian Press HAMILTON…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-397463","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\/397463","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=397463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}