{"id":301170,"date":"2025-11-23T06:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301170\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T06:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:21:15","slug":"montreal-alouettes-sign-kicker-jose-maltos-diaz-to-contract-extension-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301170\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Alouettes sign kicker Jose Maltos Diaz to contract extension \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONTREAL \u2013 The Montreal Alouettes signed kicker Jose Maltos Diaz to a contract extension Thursday.<\/p>\n

The deal keeps the five-foot-10, 221-pound Maltos Diaz with the CFL club through 2027.<\/p>\n

Maltos Diaz connected on a club-record 58 field goals this past season with Montreal. He made a 58-yard field goal \u2014 a club record \u2014 during a regular-season game against Calgary and was the CFL\u2019s leading scorer with 210 points.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMontreal Alouettes’ Jose Maltos Diaz (19) kicks a field goal as Montreal Alouettes’ Joseph Zema (36) holds the ball against the Saskatchewan Roughriders during second half CFL football action at the 112th Grey Cup, in Winnipeg on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Darryl Dyck<\/p>\n

Next season will be Maltos Diaz\u2019s fourth in Montreal after starting his CFL career in 2019 with the Ottawa Redblacks.<\/p>\n

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Edmonton Elks sign defensive linemen Smith, Williams to contract extensions<\/p>\n

EDMONTON \u2014 The Edmonton Elks signed defensive linemen Robbie Smith and Jordan Williams to contract extensions.<\/p>\n

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Smith, of Brampton, Ont., had 16 tackles in 10 regular-season games, his first with Edmonton. He spent his previous five CFL campaigns with the Toronto Argonauts, helping the franchise win Grey Cups in 2022 and \u201924.<\/p>\n

Smith\u2019s blocked field goal preserved Toronto\u2019s 24-23 championship win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the \u201922 Grey Cup.<\/p>\n

Smith has appeared in 90 career regular-season games, recording 143 tackles, 20 sacks, one interception, and three forced fumbles.<\/p>\n

Williams, an American, joined the Elks midway through the \u201925 season after being released by Toronto. He appeared in a combined 14 games, recording 13 tackles and scoring on a 77-yard fumble return.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov, 20, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2013 The Montreal Alouettes signed kicker Jose Maltos Diaz to a contract extension Thursday. The deal keeps…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-301170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301170","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=301170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}