BC Lions sign White Rock kicker Sean Whyte to 1-year contract extension<\/p>\n
Published 2:53 pm Wednesday, January 7, 2026<\/p>\n
BC Lions kicker and White Rock native Sean Whyte will play for at least one more year with his hometown Canadian Football League team.<\/p>\n
The clutch kicker, who led the CFL with a career-high field goal percentage of 95.1 after making good on 39 of 41 attempts in 2025, was also a West Divsionn All-CFL selection for the third straight season.<\/p>\n
This will be Whyte\u2019s eighth season with the BC Lions and 18th overall in the CFL, and the 40-year-old says he\u2019s happy to play for another year with his hometown team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s fantastic. I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d play for this long \u2026 to play for my home town and just to see the excitement with my family \u2014 it\u2019s pretty cool,\u201d Whyte said Wednesday (Jan. 7). \u201cI don\u2019t want to go anywhere else. I just feel very lucky that I get an opportunity to keep playing the game I love. Very lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whyte continued to ascend the league record books last year, entering 2026 as the league\u2019s all-time leader in field goal accuracy (88.8 per cent), having made good on 557 of 627 attempts across 241 regular season games. His 2,282 career points and 557 field goals are both good ninth on the CFL\u2019s all-time list.<\/p>\n
Since re-joining the Lions ahead of 2022, he has made good on 175 of 186 field goal attempts (94.0 per cent), has led the CFL in field goal percentage in each of the last three years and was the West Division nominee for CFL Most Outstanding Special Teams Player and an All-CFL selection in both the 2023 and 2024 seasons, the BC Lions noted in a release.<\/p>\n
With 828 points in his Lions career (2009-10, 2022-present), Whyte sits third on the club\u2019s all-time scoring list behind only Canadian Football Hall of Fame Inductees Lui Passaglia and Paul McCallum.<\/p>\n
Following his first stint in orange and black, Whyte joined the Montreal Alouettes from 2011-14 and earned East Division All-CFL honours in his third season with the club.<\/p>\n
He then moved to Edmonton for the next six seasons, further establishing himself as one of the CFL\u2019s premier kickers. Along with helping the squad win a Grey Cup in 2015, Whyte made 90.2 per cent of his field goal attempts (195\/216).<\/p>\n
Whyte said he\u2019s going to continue to work hard and train harder, with the potential of a perfect season still a goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy goal is this year is just get stronger. This off season I\u2019m really really going to train hard,\u201d he said. \u201cI still have the fire in me to compete and playing at home for the BC Lions \u2026 (there\u2019s) nothing better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BC Lions sign White Rock kicker Sean Whyte to 1-year contract extension Published 2:53 pm Wednesday, January 7,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-405167","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\/405167","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=405167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}