{"id":771087,"date":"2026-06-30T13:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/771087\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:14:21","slug":"ticats-extend-national-linebacker-ryan-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/771087\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticats extend National linebacker Ryan Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAMILTON \u2014 The Hamilton Tiger-Cats announced on Monday the team has signed Canadian linebacker Ryan Baker to a contract extension through the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p>Baker, 26, has played 34 regular season games over the past two seasons with the Tiger-Cats, including three this season, registering 67 defensive tackles and 14 special teams tackles.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED<br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/06\/28\/alouettes-survive-redblacks-comeback-attempt-in-bounce-back-win\/\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/06\/28\/alouettes-survive-redblacks-comeback-attempt-in-bounce-back-win\/\" data-uw-original- rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alouettes fend off late REDBLACKS push<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/06\/27\/stampeders-spoil-the-party-in-kelowna-to-earn-first-win-of-season\/\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/06\/27\/stampeders-spoil-the-party-in-kelowna-to-earn-first-win-of-season\/\" data-uw-original- rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stampeders spoil the party in Kelowna to earn first win of season<\/a><br \/>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/tyler-kahmann\/169355\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ga-category=\"Clicks - 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open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->Elks hold off Bombers on Thursday to win third straight<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-one, 221-pound native of North Vancouver, B.C., was selected by Hamilton in the second round (15th overall) of the 2024 CFL Canadian Draft following a five-year career at the University of British Columbia (2018-23).<\/p>\n<p>In 32 games with the Thunderbirds, Baker recorded 221 total tackles, 10 tackles for loss, 5.5 quarterback sacks, one interception, seven pass breakups, one forced fumble and three fumble recoveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAMILTON \u2014 The Hamilton Tiger-Cats announced on Monday the team has signed Canadian linebacker Ryan Baker to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-771087","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\/771087","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=771087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}