{"id":434378,"date":"2026-01-26T14:02:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/434378\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:02:43","slug":"american-kicker-michael-hughes-re-signs-with-saskatchewan-roughriders-620-ckrm-the-voice-of-saskatchewan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/434378\/","title":{"rendered":"American kicker Michael Hughes re-signs with Saskatchewan Roughriders | 620 CKRM &#8211; The Voice of Saskatchewan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saskatchewan Roughriders have re-signed American kicker Michael Hughes.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-three, 190-pound Hughes \u00a0returns to the Roughriders after initially signing with the team\u00a0in October. He suited up in\u00a0one game for Saskatchewan\u00a0last season and went two-for-two on field goals including a 42-yard strike.<\/p>\n<p>Collegiately, Hughes is the all-time leader in field-goal percentage (83.3) at Appalachian State, where he played in 46 games from 2021 to 2024. He made 35-of-42 three-point attempts over that span while going a perfect 120-for-120 on converts and averaging 60.7 yards per kickoff.<\/p>\n<p>The Charleston, West Virginia native made 18 field goals in a row during a stretch that spanned the 2023 and 2024 seasons. In 2023, he went 19-for-22 on field goals \u2014\u00a0with the longest kick being a 54-yard game winner \u2013\u202fand hit all 54 converts en route to being honoured by the College Football Network as a second-team All-American and the FBS Special Teamer of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have re-signed American kicker Michael Hughes. The six-foot-three, 190-pound Hughes \u00a0returns to the Roughriders after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,4404,4398,1893,4397,4402,4401,4400,4399,82,4403],"class_list":["post-434378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-country","tag-country-music","tag-radio","tag-regina-news","tag-reigna-pats","tag-rider-radio","tag-saskatchewan-roughriders","tag-saskatchewan-sports","tag-sports","tag-sportscage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434378","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=434378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}