VANCOUVER \u2014 The BC Lions announced on Friday that National offensive lineman Michael Couture is staying with his hometown team with a two-year extension. Couture was eligible to become a free agent on February 10.<\/p>\n
\u201cMike was a big part of the gelling of our offensive line this past season,\u201d said general manager Ryan Rigmaiden.<\/p>\n
His veteran presence, leadership and intelligence were all on display every day, both on and off the field. We\u2019re happy to have him back in the fold.\u201d<\/p>\n
RELATED \u00a0<\/p>\n Couture (six-foot-four, 302 pounds) battled through injury and managed to start 12 regular season games at centre, plus two more in the Grey Cup Playoffs in 2025.<\/p>\n Couture helped the much-improved unit allow a CFL-low 20 sacks and set a new pro football record of 8.04 yards per play.<\/p>\n The Burnaby-born and former Centennial Centaurs High School player joined the Lions as a free agent ahead of 2023 and started 30 regular season games at centre over the next two seasons.<\/p>\n Selected in round two (10th overall) by Winnipeg in the 2016 CFL Draft, Couture became a full-time starter at centre in 2019 and won his first of back-to-back Grey Cups with the club. In 2022, Couture and the Bombers offence helped the squad set a franchise record of 15 regular season wins before a third straight Grey Cup appearance.<\/p>\n Couture suited up in 36 games at Simon Fraser from 2012-15 and saw action at four different offensive line positions. He earned Great Northern Athletic Conference (GNAC) All-Star nods at both tackle and centre in each of his final two seasons at the Burnaby Mountain campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 The BC Lions announced on Friday that National offensive lineman Michael Couture is staying with his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-356048","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\/356048","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=356048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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