{"id":29104,"date":"2015-01-30T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/riders-keep-wr-dressler-with-4-year-extension\/"},"modified":"2015-01-30T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T18:08:00","slug":"riders-keep-wr-dressler-with-4-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/riders-keep-wr-dressler-with-4-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Riders keep WR Dressler with 4-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regina, SK (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Saskatchewan Roughriders and wide receiver Weston Dressler agreed to a four-year contract extension on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Financial details of the signing were not released.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought things went pretty smoothly. I&#8217;m just happy to be back here, thankful that Brendan (GM Taman) and Jeremy (assistant GM O&#8217;Day) were pretty easy guys to work with,&#8221; Dressler said.<\/p>\n<p>Dressler was limited to nine games in 2014, totaling 320 yards and one touchdown on 27 receptions and adding two punt return scores.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old North Dakota product sits third in franchise history with 469 receptions and 6,856 yards, while his 44 receiving touchdowns rank fifth all- time over 107 career regular season games.<\/p>\n<p>Dressler was named the CFL&#8217;s Most Outstanding Rookie after recording 56 receptions for 1,123 yards and six touchdowns in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regina, SK (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Saskatchewan Roughriders and wide receiver Weston Dressler agreed to a four-year contract extension on Friday. Financial details of the signing were not released. &#8220;I thought things went pretty smoothly. I&#8217;m just happy to be back here, thankful that Brendan (GM Taman) and Jeremy (assistant GM O&#8217;Day) were pretty easy guys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}