{"id":727521,"date":"2026-06-10T13:14:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/727521\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:14:34","slug":"former-seahawks-draft-pick-kenny-lawler-signs-record-setting-cfl-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/727521\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Seahawks draft pick Kenny Lawler signs record-setting CFL contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Next week marks the start of the Canadian Football League regular season, and one of the league\u2019s star players just got himself (by CFL standards) one of the biggest deals in league history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">We have regularly covered Kenny Lawler\u2019s success story up in Canada. He never made the Seahawks regular season roster as a rookie, and even his early days in the CFL were rocky. From 2019 onward, he\u2019s been one of the best in the business, winning two Grey Cups and earning two league-wide All-Star nods. In his first season with the Tiger-Cats, Lawler posted 86 catches for 1,443 yards and 14 touchdowns, all career highs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Pending other contracts, Lawler will be the highest paid non-quarterback in the CFL next season. It\u2019s certainly the talk of Canadian football right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Lawler will turn 32 years old next month, so there has been some questioning over whether this is a good business move by Hamilton\u2014again, we\u2019re working with CFL numbers and a salary cap that is $6.28 million CAD. It\u2019s nevertheless great to see how Lawler has persevered and managed a long and successful pro football career, even if north of the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next week marks the start of the Canadian Football League regular season, and one of the league\u2019s star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,21628,82],"class_list":["post-727521","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-seattle-seahawks-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727521","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=727521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}