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<\/p>\nThe Canadian Press – Feb 4, 2026 \/ 4:01 pm | Story: 597828<\/p>\n
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MONTREAL \u2014 Anthony Calvillo will be the Montreal Alouettes offensive playcaller this season.<\/p>\n
Calvillo, Montreal’s offensive co-ordinator and quarterbacks coach, will take over playcalling duties from head coach Jason Maas, the club announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Montreal also unveiled Maas’s coaching staff for 2026 and it features nine returnees from last year when the Alouettes reached the Grey Cup before losing 25-17 to the Saskatchewan Roughriders.<\/p>\n
A.J. Gass joins the Alouettes as linebackers coach after serving as a special-teams co-ordinator and linebackers coach with the Alberta Golden Bears. Gass played linebacker for the Edmonton Elks from 1998 to ’07 and also spent time with the franchise as a defensive assistant (2008-09) and special-teams co-ordinator (2019).<\/p>\n
Domenico Manno will serve as an offensive assistant. He began his tenure with the Alouettes in 2021 as an equipment assistant and became head of the department one year later.<\/p>\n
The remainder of Maas’s staff includes Byron Archambault (assistant head coach, special-teams co-ordinator), Calvillo, Noel Thorpe (defensive co-ordinator, defensive backs), Dave Brown (offensive line), Michael Lionello (receivers, pass-game co-ordinator), Dave Jackson (running backs and tight ends), Corvey Irvin (defensive line) and Bryan Wyllie (defensive assistant). <\/p>\n
Elks sign defensive backs Garnes, Williams to contract extensions<\/p>\n
EDMONTON \u2014 The Edmonton Elks signed American defensive backs Chelen Garnes and Kobe Williams to contract extensions Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Garnes’ deal is through 2027 while Williams’ contract is for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
The five-foot-11, 207-pound Garnes registered 62 tackles and an interception last season, his first in the CFL. He also was a versatile performer, seeing action at both free safety and strong-side linebacker while being named Edmonton’s nominee for the league’s top rookie award.<\/p>\n
Williams had 60 total tackles (54 defensive, six special teams) last season, his first with Edmonton. Williams played his first four years in the CFL with the Calgary Stampeders.<\/p>\n
Williams has recorded 190 tackles, one sack, three interceptions and three forced fumbles in 66 career CFL regular-season games.<\/p>\n
Grey Cup-champion Roughriders sign veteran linebacker Woods<\/p>\n
REGINA \u2014 The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed American linebacker Josh Woods on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The six-foot-two, 234-pound Woods spent the last five seasons with the B.C. Lions. He recorded 152 tackles, 25 special-teams tackles, three sacks and two interceptions while scoring a TD in 55 regular-season games.<\/p>\n
Woods started 10 of the 14 games he appeared in last season. He had a career-high 65 total tackles (six for loss), a sack and fumble recovery.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 4, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian Press – Feb 4, 2026 \/ 4:01 pm | Story: 597828 Photo: The Canadian Press MONTREAL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-454974","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\/454974","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=454974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}