{"id":318638,"date":"2025-12-01T15:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/318638\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:34:11","slug":"montreal-alouettes-re-sign-pier-olivier-lestage-to-long-term-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/318638\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Alouettes re-sign Pier-Olivier Lestage to long-term extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.3downnation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPS02202-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"Photo: Reuben Polansky\/3DownNation. All rights reserved.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RPS02202-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Pier-Olivier LESTAGE\"\/><\/a>Photo: Reuben Polansky\/3DownNation. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Alouettes have signed Canadian offensive lineman Pier-Olivier Lestage to a three-year contract extension, tying him to the team through 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old native of Saint-Eustache, Que. made 17 starts at left guard in 2025, helping the Alouettes reach the 112th Grey Cup in Winnipeg. He was named All-East Division for the first time in his CFL career.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-three, 312-pound blocker was initially a second-round pick in the 2021 CFL Draft out of the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. He signed with the Alouettes in 2022 following a stint with the Seattle Seahawks and has since played 64 regular-season CFL games, helping Montreal win the 110th Grey Cup in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very happy to be able to count on Pier-Olivier\u2019s services for the next three years; this is excellent news for our football club,\u201d said general manager Danny Maciocia in a statement. \u201cI\u2019ve known Pier-Olivier since his days in university, and he has a contagious work ethic. He is a big presence in our locker room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lestage was recently named\u00a03DownNation\u2018s No. 23 top pending CFL free agent.<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Alouettes finished second in the East Division standings in 2025 with a 10-8 record and beat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the East Final before losing the 112th Grey Cup to the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Davis Alexander went 7-0 as a starter during the regular-season, though he missed 11 games due to a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Alouettes ranked eighth in net offence, first in net defence, and third with a turnover differential of plus-eight. The club\u2019s leading rusher was Stevie Scott III with 418 yards, leading receiver was Tyler Snead with 1,129 yards, and leading tackler was Darnell Sankey with 103 tackles. Montreal finished sixth in attendance with average crowds of 21,132, which was a 0.8 percent decrease from the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Reuben Polansky\/3DownNation. All rights reserved. The Montreal Alouettes have signed Canadian offensive lineman Pier-Olivier Lestage to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-318638","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\/318638","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=318638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}