{"id":29314,"date":"2015-02-05T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/tiger-cats-re-sign-brandon-banks\/"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T16:54:00","slug":"tiger-cats-re-sign-brandon-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/tiger-cats-re-sign-brandon-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger-Cats re-sign Brandon Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tiger-Cats have signed kick returner\/wide receiver Brandon Banks to a new contract that will keep him in Hamilton through the 2017 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brandon is one of the premier playmakers in the league with the ability to change the game every time he touches the ball,&#8221; said Tiger-Cats general manager and head coach Kent Austin. &#8220;We are extremely happy that he will be with our team for the next three years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Banks led the CFL in combined yards (1,968), punt return yards (618) and ranked third in kick return yards (701) en route to earning his first career CFL All-Star nod last season.<\/p>\n<p>He set a new CFL record for punt return yards in a playoff game with 226 yards in Hamilton&#8217;s 40-26 victory over the Montreal Alouettes in the 2014 Eastern Final. Banks also tied the CFL playoff record for punt return touchdowns in a playoff game (2) on the same day, as he returned punts of 88 and 93 yards for scores.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Banks also caught 42 passes for 529 yards and five touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tiger-Cats have signed kick returner\/wide receiver Brandon Banks to a new contract that will keep him in Hamilton through the 2017 season. &#8220;Brandon is one of the premier playmakers in the league with the ability to change the game every time he touches the ball,&#8221; said Tiger-Cats general manager and [&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-29314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29314","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=29314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}