{"id":397930,"date":"2026-01-09T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/397930\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:15:10","slug":"hamilton-tiger-cats-p-nik-constantinou-to-sign-with-cleveland-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/397930\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton Tiger-Cats P Nik Constantinou to sign with Cleveland Browns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hamilton Tiger-Cats punter Nik Constantinou is expected to sign with the NFL\u2019s Cleveland Browns, according to TSN\u2019s Dave Naylor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Per the CFL transactions wire, the Australian has been released by Hamilton to pursue the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Constantinou worked out with two NFL teams prior to signing, completing visits with the Browns themselves and the New Orleans Saints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Should the punter be released by the Browns, the Tiger-Cats will hold his exclusive playing rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fifth overall pick in the 2024 CFL Global Draft, Constantinou booted the ball away 90 times for 4,343 yards with an average of 48.3 yards per kick in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In his rookie season in 2024, the 26-year-old punted 102 times for 4,803 yards with an average of 47.1 yards per punt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamilton Tiger-Cats punter Nik Constantinou is expected to sign with the NFL\u2019s Cleveland Browns, according to TSN\u2019s Dave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,74988,82],"class_list":["post-397930","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-hamilton-tiger-cats-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-83579","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397930","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=397930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}