{"id":449207,"date":"2026-02-02T13:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449207\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:52:08","slug":"niagara-falls-quarterback-tre-ford-signs-with-hamilton-tiger-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449207\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls quarterback, Tre Ford signs with Hamilton Tiger-Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quarterback Tre Ford is shown preparing to throw the football while leading the Edmonton Elks (Photo courtesy of CFL.ca).<\/p>\n<p>The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have signed Canadian quarterback Tre Ford.<\/p>\n<p>3DownNation says the 27-year-old Niagara Falls native has inked a two-year deal with the TiCats.<\/p>\n<p>The Waterloo product and 2021 Hec Crighton Trophy winner was released by Edmonton last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In 60 games with the Elks, he threw 4,600 yards, 29 touchdowns and 19 interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>The deal comes just as the CFL\u2019s free agency communication window opened, the time when teams can contact pending free agents.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chch.com\/chch-news\/from-football-to-bobsleigh-ticats-receiver-discusses-making-olympic-bobsled-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">From football to bobsleigh: Ticats receiver discusses making Olympic bobsled team<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chch.com\/chch-news\/hamilton-painter-braves-the-cold-to-capture-winters-natural-beauty\/\" class=\"nav-item-prev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Hamilton-winter-artist-FEB-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"   itemprop=\"image\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\/1;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPrevious CHCH News\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHamilton painter braves the cold to capture winter\u2019s natural beauty\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quarterback Tre Ford is shown preparing to throw the football while leading the Edmonton Elks (Photo courtesy of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-449207","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449207","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=449207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}