Here's the full story on the Luke Tasker re-signing from the Spec today.

Luke Tasker had a contract from an NFL team on the table. A two-year deal that would have provided him with an invite to the Green Bay Packers training camp and a shot to make the roster. It was the kind of opportunity that most CFL players only dream of.

He turned them down.

Instead, the 24-year-old receiver signed a three-year deal to return to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, all but closing the door on an NFL career but opening up what he vehemently believes will be a better life for both him and his family.

"I'm not saying it was an easy decision. We talked about it for a long time with a lot of people," Tasker said Friday, a day after the deal was officially announced by the club. "But when I really thought it about it, it seemed crazy to go some place with so much uncertainty while giving up a situation where we're already so happy."

Ticats general manager and head coach Kent Austin seems pretty pleased as well. Tasker was a CFL East Division all-star in 2014 as he led the Ticats in receiving with 72 receptions for 937 yards and five touchdowns in 17 regular season games in 2014.

But those numbers only tell part of the story. Austin was asked on Friday to describe Tasker's attributes and unleashed a 40-second monologue that touched on 16 different qualities and included everything from smarts to toughness to selflessness.

"He's a great person to have on the team, great player," Austin said, by way of summation. "Everything about him is what we're trying to build."

It wasn't just about a football decision. Both Tasker and wife, Jenna, are from upstate New York and have plenty of family in the area. She's hoping to begin graduate school in the fall and they are renovating a house just south of Buffalo. Even his father, Steve, who was a seven-time Pro Bowler with the Bills and now works as analyst for CBS, was in favour of the Hamilton option.

"My Dad wanted me to come here so bad," Tasker said. "He's a family guy, first and foremost and for what my wife and I are doing, for what we want in the future, he felt this made the most sense."

Tasker is popular with his teammates — offensive lineman Mike Filer made the trip in from Brantford to be at Friday's media session — but one guy who didn't lobby Tasker to return was quarterback Zach Collaros. The two enjoy excellent on-field chemistry and have talked frequently this off-season but Collaros kept the pressure off.

"He wanted me to come back, obviously, but he also said he thought I'd make it if I went to Green Bay," Tasker said of Collaros. "He just wanted me to be happy, either way."

Now that the deal is signed, Tasker said he feels both relief and excitement. While most football careers are plagued by uncertainty, Tasker and his family have the closest thing to stability as a player is likely to get. And by closing the door on the NFL himself, he's fully at peace with the decision.

"I don't have a burning desire to play in the NFL. I just don't. I love, love, love playing football. I fell in love with playing football again last season and I just want to play," he said. "I want to win a Grey Cup and it means more to me than taking a shot at the NFL."