{"id":339082,"date":"2025-12-11T22:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339082\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:14:09","slug":"montreal-alouettes-canadian-lb-geoffrey-cantin-arku-agree-to-one-year-extension-through-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339082\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Alouettes, Canadian LB Geoffrey Cantin-Arku agree to one-year extension through 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Montreal Alouettes and Canadian linebacker Geoffrey Cantin-Arku have agreed to a one-year contract extension. The 27-year-old was already under contract for 2026, but now adds on one more year for the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cGeoffrey has done a very good job since joining us and he deserves this vote of confidence,\u201d said general manager Danny Maciocia in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe keeps improving and taking on more and more responsibility. We are very pleased with this agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot-4, 230-pound defender has not missed a single game in two years since being drafted in the first round (9th overall) by the Alouettes in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 2025, he recorded 38 defensive tackles and six more on special teams. He also recorded four sacks, one interception, and forced three fumbles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In his rookie season in 2024, the L\u00e9vis, Que. native collected 38 total tackles, along with five sacks and an interception. He was also named the Alouettes\u2019 rookie of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At the collegiate level, Cantin-Arku spent two seasons with the Memphis Tigers. Prior to joining the Tigers, he played three seasons with the Syracuse Orange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In May 2024, he received an invitation to the Miami Dolphins\u2019 rookie camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Alouettes and Canadian linebacker Geoffrey Cantin-Arku have agreed to a one-year contract extension. The 27-year-old was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,79863,82],"class_list":["post-339082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-montreal-alouettes-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-86680","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339082","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=339082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}