{"id":695914,"date":"2026-05-26T23:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/695914\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T23:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:35:08","slug":"former-blue-bomber-kenny-lawler-signs-million-dollar-deal-with-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/695914\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Blue Bomber, Kenny Lawler, signs million dollar deal with Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers has signed the largest wide receiver deal in Canadian Football League (CFL) history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Hamilton\u00a0Tiger-Cats announced that they have extended\u00a0All-CFL wide receiver Kenny Lawler through the 2028 season on a $1 million contract. The contract includes a\u00a0$300,000 salary in 2026 that rises to $330,000 in 2027 and $370,000 in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Lawler&#8217;s contract is the\u00a0biggest receiver deal in the history of the CFL, excluding Rocket Ismail\u2019s 1991 deal with the Toronto Argonauts.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORIES:<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old appeared in all 18 regular-season games in 2025 with Hamilton and recorded\u00a086 receptions for 1,443 yards. His 14 receiving touchdowns were also a league best.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Hamilton, Lawler was with the Blue Bombers [2019, 2021, 2023, 2024] for 51 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of his career, he has played 81 CFL regular-season games, he has recorded\u00a0342 receptions for 5,551 yards and 39 touchdowns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blue Bombers will get to see Lawler with the Ticats on June 11, for Winnipeg&#8217;s 2026 home opener.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers has signed the largest wide receiver deal in Canadian Football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-695914","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\/695914","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=695914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}