{"id":695115,"date":"2026-05-26T15:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/695115\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:33:09","slug":"hamilton-tiger-cats-kenny-lawler-make-1-million-contract-cfl-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/695115\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Kenny Lawler make $1 million contract CFL history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenny Lawler and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats have made Canadian Football League history.<\/p>\n<p>The talented wide receiver has now earned the biggest WR contract the CFL has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>According to TSN&#8217;s Dave Naylor, the Tiger-Cats have reached a three-year deal worth $1 million with Lawler.<\/p>\n<p>Lawler is coming off a massive season, finishing with 86 catches for 1,443 yards and 14 touchdowns, with an impressive 16.8 yards per catch.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ticats?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@Ticats<\/a> have signed WR Kenny Lawler to a new 3-year $1 million contract \u2026 making it the biggest receiver deal in CFL history, aside from the 1991 Rocket Ismail <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/argos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@argos<\/a> contract for personal services. The 31-year-old Lawler led the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@CFL<\/a> with 16.8 yards per catch last season\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Naylor (@TSNDaveNaylor) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNDaveNaylor\/status\/2059257751117689032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">May 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lawler is 31 years old now, a decade since he played his college football at the NCAA level for California.<\/p>\n<p>He was a seventh-round pick out of college in the NFL Draft by the Seattle Seahawks, but he never appeared in an NFL regular season game.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-1, 180-pound Lawler has been in the CFL since 2019. He spent four seasons with Winnipeg, with a season with Edmonton interspersed, before joining Hamilton for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He had previously put up 1,014 yards as his career-best with Winnipeg in 2021, but he flew past that in 2025 for the Tiger-Cats.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he&#8217;ll have the weight of some additional expectation on his shoulders, but Hamilton clearly feels that Lawler is worth it.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nhl\/toronto-maple-leafs\/news\/2-maple-leafs-stars-incredible-reaction-draft-lottery-news\/820ce85fecdd2984fa30607b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">These 2 Maple Leafs stars had an incredible reaction to draft lottery news<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenny Lawler and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats have made Canadian Football League history. The talented wide receiver has now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-695115","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\/695115","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=695115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}