{"id":470679,"date":"2026-02-12T18:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470679\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:20:08","slug":"ticats-sign-receiver-kurleigh-gittens-jr-to-two-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470679\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticats sign receiver Kurleigh Gittens Jr. to two-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

HAMILTON \u2014 The Hamilton Tiger-Cats announced on Thursday the signing of National wide receiver Kurleigh Gittens Jr.<\/a> to a two-year contract. Gittens Jr. became a free agent on February 10.<\/p>\n

Gittens Jr., 28, spent the 2025 season with the Edmonton Elks, appearing in 17 games and recording 62 receptions for 777 yards and four touchdowns. The five-foot-11, 191-pound native of Ottawa, Ontario brings six seasons of CFL experience, appearing in 88 regular season games and totaling 314 receptions for 3,756 yards.<\/p>\n

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A Grey Cup champion (2022) and All-CFL selection (2022), Gittens Jr. has earned two East Division All-CFL honours (2021, 2022) and the Lew Hayman Trophy (2022) as the East Division\u2019s Most Outstanding Canadian. He has played in the CFL with the Toronto Argonauts (2019-2023) and Edmonton Elks (2024-2025), after being selected by Toronto in the third round (23rd overall) of the 2019 CFL Draft.<\/p>\n

Collegiately, Gittens Jr. played at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he earned OUA MVP honours (2017) and won the Yates Cup (2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAMILTON \u2014 The Hamilton Tiger-Cats announced on Thursday the signing of National wide receiver Kurleigh Gittens Jr. to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-470679","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\/470679","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=470679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}