{"id":352760,"date":"2025-12-18T06:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352760\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T06:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:55:06","slug":"alouettes-extend-defensive-back-najee-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352760\/","title":{"rendered":"Alouettes extend defensive back Najee Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2014 The Montreal Alouettes announced on Wednesday that the team has reached an agreement with American defensive back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/najee-murray\/163058\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ga-category=\"Clicks - Article\" data-ga-action=\"article-player-link\" data-ga-opt-label=\"Najee Murray\">Najee Murray<\/a> for the 2026 season. Murray was scheduled to become a free agent in February.<\/p>\n<p>The native of Steubenville, Ohio recorded 77 defensive tackles, two sacks, and two interceptions. He also added two knockdowns and recovered two fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED<br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/schedule\/\" aria-label=\"View the entire 2026 schedule - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->View the entire 2026 schedule<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/12\/11\/the-weekly-say-moments-to-look-forward-to-on-the-2026-cfl-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/12\/11\/the-weekly-say-moments-to-look-forward-to-on-the-2026-cfl-schedule\/\" aria-label=\"The Weekly Say: Moments to look forward to on the 2026 CFL schedule - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->The Weekly Say: Moments to look forward to on the 2026 CFL schedule<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/12\/09\/5-must-watch-cfl-games-in-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/12\/09\/5-must-watch-cfl-games-in-2026\/\" aria-label=\"5 must-watch CFL games in 2026 - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->5 must-watch CFL games in 2026<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/12\/10\/5-juicy-rematches-from-2025-in-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/12\/10\/5-juicy-rematches-from-2025-in-2026\/\" aria-label=\"5 juicy rematches from 2025 in 2026 - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->5 juicy rematches from 2025 in 2026<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Subscribe to the CFL\u2019s newsletter for exclusive offers and league updates - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/newsletter\/\" data-uw-original->Subscribe to the CFL\u2019s newsletter for exclusive offers and league updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old joined the Alouettes in 2018. The former Kent State product will be entering his eighth season in the nest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNajee can do a lot of things for us on the defensive side of the ball,\u201d said Alouettes general manager Danny Maciocia. \u201cHe had an excellent 2025 season, and he inspires our younger players to push themselves. He is a veteran presence on our roster, and we are happy to be able to count on his services again next season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 The Montreal Alouettes announced on Wednesday that the team has reached an agreement with American defensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-352760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352760","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=352760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}