{"id":437344,"date":"2023-06-05T15:35:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T19:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437344"},"modified":"2023-06-05T15:35:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T19:35:57","slug":"tiger-cats-sign-kongbo-from-bc-lions","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/tiger-cats-sign-kongbo-from-bc-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger-Cats sign Kongbo from BC Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hamilton Tiger-Cats shared that the DL <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/jonathan-kongbo\/\">Jonathan Kongbo<\/a> will join the franchise from the BC Lions in a trade for a 4<sup>th<\/sup>-round pick in the 2024 CFL Draft.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We&#8217;ve acquired Jonathan Kongbo from BC for BC&#8217;s 2024 fourth round pick (previously acquired for Dane Evans).<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddde| <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/411VS1qRLL\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/411VS1qRLL<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ticats?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Ticats<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lYjRGv1XO5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lYjRGv1XO5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hamilton Tiger-Cats (@Ticats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ticats\/status\/1665739227718361089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Originally, the pick was Lions\u2019, but the Tiger-Cats got it in the Dane Evans exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan (27) joined BC Lions in May. He has played 26 matches in the Canadian Football League as part of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers over 2 campaigns in 2019 and 2021. He has 29 tackles and 4 sacks.<\/p>\n<p>Kongbo played 3 matches last year in the NFL for the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/denver-broncos\/\">Denver Broncos<\/a>. He was also part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/san-francisco-49ers\/\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton will begin their 2023 campaign on Friday vs. the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hamilton Tiger-Cats shared that the DL Jonathan Kongbo will join the franchise from the BC Lions in a trade for a 4th-round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":437345,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19375,19733],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[19377,19735,19736],"acf":{"announce":"The former Lions player will join the Canadian team.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437344"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437344"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}