MISSOULA \u2014 Braxton Hill has found a new home in the Canadian Football League. <\/p>\n
The Anaconda native and former Montana Grizzlies all-Big Sky Conference linebacker signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Monday, the team announced. Hill signed with the team’s practice roster. <\/p>\n
Hill, 25, previously played professionally in the CFL in a stint with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. <\/p>\n
Hill amassed a decorated career at Montana and was a two-year starter at linebacker after walking on with the Grizzlies out of high school. In his senior year in 2023, he became an All-American and first-team All-Big Sky talent with 128 total tackles, 7.5 for loss, four sacks and two interceptions, including a pick-6. In his senior year, Hill was also a team captain as the Griz made it to the FCS national championship game. <\/p>\n
For his career, Hill appeared in 51 games and racked up 231 tackles, 17 for loss, nine sacks, two picks and two fumble recoveries. <\/p>\n
The Tiger-Cats are currently in first place in the East Division of the CFL with a 6-4 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MISSOULA \u2014 Braxton Hill has found a new home in the Canadian Football League. The Anaconda native and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[56292,56293,49,48,521,522,520,56294,56295,15655,56296,56297,56298,82],"class_list":["post-96406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-big-sky-conference-football","tag-braxton-hill","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-fcs-football","tag-griz-football","tag-hamilton-tiger-cats","tag-montana-football","tag-montana-grizzlies","tag-montana-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96406","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=96406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}