REGINA \u2014 The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed National defensive back Kerfalla Exum\u00e9 to a contract extension, the team announced on Wednesday. He was scheduled to become a free agent in February.<\/p>\n
Exum\u00e9 (six-foot, 195 pounds) returns to the Roughriders after signing with the Green and White in February last year. The Montreal native suited up for all 18 regular season games last season, plus the Western Final and Grey Cup. Exum\u00e9 excels on special teams, where he made eight tackles and a forced fumble in 2025, while also adding four defensive tackles.<\/p>\n
RELATED \u00a0<\/p>\n Exum\u00e9 was selected by Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the eighth round, 70th overall, of the 2019 CFL Draft. Now entering his seventh CFL season he\u2019s played 94 career regular season games between the Bombers, the Montreal Alouettes, the Toronto Argonauts and the Riders. He is a three-time Grey Cup Champion winning in 2019 with the Bombers, 2024 with the Argonauts and in 2025 with Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n Over his CFL career, Exum\u00e9 has tallied a total of nine defensive tackles and 79 special teams tackles, including 25 special teams tackles in his first professional season with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers \u2013 the second-best mark in the league that year.<\/p>\n Collegiately, he played four seasons at the University of Montreal (2015-18). He earned 26 tackles, two interceptions, four pass breakups, and one forced fumble over 22 games.<\/p>\n The Roughriders also announced they have signed American\u202flinebacker\u202fVi Jones.<\/p>\n Jones\u202f(six-foot-two, 225 pounds)\u202fsigned with the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 2022\u202fand appeared\u202fin three games as a\u202frookie. He\u202fsubsequently\u202fspent time with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2023-24), earning two forced fumbles and nine defensive tackles in seven games in 2024.\u202fBoth forced fumbles were in the same game \u2014\u202fagainst the host Los Angeles Chargers on Dec. 15, 2024 \u2014 and were on back-to-back plays. The Chargers recovered the first fumble made on a kickoff return, but Jones forced a turnover\u202fby dislodging the football\u202fonce more\u202fon the following play from scrimmage. He went on to join the Cardinals for 2025 registering 10 tackles in three pre-season games before being\u202famong the Cardinals\u2019 final cuts.<\/p>\n Collegiately, Jones played for USC (2017-18) before transferring to North Carolina State in 2019. As a senior\u202fin 2021, he had 45\u202ftackles (including eight for a loss),\u202fsix sacks, 12 quarterback hurries and a blocked kick\u202fin 12 games.\u202fIn 2020, he blocked three kick,\u202ftying him for the\u202flead in\u202fFBS,\u202fand started four games at weak-side linebacker. He\u202fwas a co-recipient of\u202fthe Wolfpack\u2019s\u202fSpecial Teams Player of the Year award\u202ffor 2020.\u202fHe had 28 total tackles in 21 games over two seasons at USC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REGINA \u2014 The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed National defensive back Kerfalla Exum\u00e9 to a contract extension, the team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-439528","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\/439528","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=439528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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