{"id":773792,"date":"2026-07-01T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773792\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:05:09","slug":"acus-blayne-taylor-signs-with-cfls-hamilton-tiger-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773792\/","title":{"rendered":"ACU&#8217;s Blayne Taylor Signs with CFL&#8217;s Hamilton Tiger-Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Abilene Christian wide receiver Blayne Taylor has signed a contract with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League, the team announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor played for the Wildcats from 2022-24, finishing with 133 catches for 2,026 yards and 17 touchdowns. As a senior, he was an All-United Athletic Conference 2nd Team selection and cracked the top 10 of ACU&#8217;s single-season record books with 73 receptions (3rd most) and 1,117 yards (6th most).<\/p>\n<p>Taylor originally signed with Hamilton in December 2025, and went through preseason training camp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acusports.com\/news\/2025\/5\/12\/football-blayne-taylor-takes-part-in-colts-rookie-minicamp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In May 2025, the Saginaw, Texas native took part in rookie minicamp with the NFL&#8217;s Indianapolis Colts.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taylor joins Sam Hicks &#8211; his former ACU teammate &#8211; in the CFL. <a href=\"https:\/\/acusports.com\/news\/2026\/6\/22\/football-hicks-scores-first-professional-touchdown-in-toronto-win\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hicks is the starting running back for the Toronto Argonauts.<\/a> Hamilton and Toronto are scheduled to face off on Saturday, July 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Abilene Christian wide receiver Blayne Taylor has signed a contract with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-773792","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\/773792","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=773792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}