{"id":847080,"date":"2026-08-05T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847080\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:40:08","slug":"hamilton-tiger-cats-sign-canadian-linebacker-jayden-griffiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847080\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton Tiger-Cats sign Canadian linebacker Jayden Griffiths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have signed Canadian linebacker Jayden Griffiths, it was announced Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 24-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., spent last season with the Ottawa Redblacks and appeared in all 18 games. He had one defensive tackle and five special teams tackles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Griffiths was with the Redblacks this year in training camp but was released in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Griffiths was a standout linebacker at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont., where he recorded 75 tackles, one and a half sacks and a fumble recovery during his four-year collegiate career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Ticats head into Week 10 at 3-5 and will take on the BC Lions on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have signed Canadian linebacker Jayden Griffiths, it was announced Wednesday morning. The 24-year-old from Mississauga,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,74988,82],"class_list":["post-847080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-hamilton-tiger-cats-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-83579","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847080","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=847080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}