{"id":470983,"date":"2026-02-12T21:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470983\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:40:10","slug":"ticats-re-sign-receiver-shemar-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470983\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticats re-sign receiver Shemar Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"

HAMILTON \u2014 The Hamilton Tiger-Cats announced on Thursday the re-signing of American wide receiver Shemar Bridges<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bridges became a free agent on February 10 at noon ET.<\/p>\n

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Bridges, 28, first joined the Tiger-Cats ahead of the 2024 season and has appeared in 33 regular season games over two seasons with the club (2024-2025). The six-foot-four, 208-pound native of Jacksonville, Florida has recorded 117 receptions for 1,294 yards and six touchdowns.<\/p>\n

During the 2024 season, Bridges was named an All-CFL East Division selection and earned East Division Most Outstanding Rookie honours.<\/p>\n

Prior to joining the CFL, Bridges spent time with the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL (2022-2023) after signing as an undrafted free agent. Collegiately, he played at Fort Valley State University (2019-2021), appearing in 16 games and totaling 92 receptions for 1,358 yards and seven touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAMILTON \u2014 The Hamilton Tiger-Cats announced on Thursday the re-signing of American wide receiver Shemar Bridges. Bridges became…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-470983","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\/470983","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=470983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}