released<\/a> by the Toronto Argonauts on Tuesday just ahead of his impending free agency.<\/p>\n\u201cWynton is one of the premier defenders in our league,\u201d said TiCats head coach Scott Milanovich in a press release announcing the deal. \u201cHe plays the game the right way \u2014 with physicality, intelligence, and a relentless motor. <\/p>\n
\u201cBeyond what he brings on the field, his experience as a Grey Cup champion and his leadership in the locker room are invaluable and we\u2019re excited to welcome him to our organization.\u201d<\/p>\n
McManis, 31, had spent the last four seasons with Toronto, recording 286 tackles, 12 sacks, and nine interceptions in 55 games, also leading the Boatmen to two Grey Cup titles in 2022 and 2024.<\/p>\n
The Memphis native spent the first three years of his career as a member of the Calgary Stampeders, where he recorded 104 tackles and four sacks in 45 appearances, winning the first Grey Cup of his career during the 2018 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have bolstered their defence with the signing of linebacker Wynton McManis, the team announced Wednesday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453584,"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-453583","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\/453583","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=453583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}