{"id":788413,"date":"2026-07-08T14:45:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/788413\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:45:30","slug":"james-butler-earns-player-of-the-week-selection-from-cfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/788413\/","title":{"rendered":"James Butler Earns Player Of The Week Selection From CFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Football League announced on Tuesday that James Butler was recognized as one of its top three Players of the Week for his key contributions in Saturday\u2019s 36-24 victory over the Edmonton Elks.<\/p>\n<p>Butler delivered his finest performance of the young season, rushing for 135 yards and a pair of second quarter touchdowns on 15 total carries (9.0-yard average).<\/p>\n<p>The tailback had four runs of ten or more yards, including back-to-back 20-yard gains as part of a terrific performance from the offence that yielded 475 net yards. Butler also had three receptions for 27 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Following a bye week and rematch with the Elks in Edmonton, the Lions return to Save-On-Foods Field at BC Place on Saturday, July 25 to battle the Toronto Argonauts. <\/p>\n<p>The Pool Party features a giant pre-game bash on Robson St., expanded tailgate and free barbecue on Terry Fox Plaza and $5 beers ALL GAME LONG.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.ca\/bc-lions-vs-toronto-argonauts-vancouver-british-columbia-07-25-2026\/event\/110064B0FFE0B3C5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Single-game tickets<\/a> start at $25!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian Football League announced on Tuesday that James Butler was recognized as one of its top three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-788413","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\/788413","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=788413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}