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<\/p>\nGrant has 13 return touchdowns over 72 regular-season games, and has averaged 13.3 yards per punt return and 23.8 yards per kick return. <\/p>\n
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He also has three return touchdowns in the playoffs, including the longest punt-return in Grey Cup history \u2014 a 102-yard dash into the end zone in the 2022 final. <\/p>\n
The Argos added another special teams player to their roster Friday, signing American kicker Matt Ammendola. <\/p>\n
The 29-year-old Philadelphia native comes to the CFL after logging time with several NFL teams, including Carolina, the New York Jets, Houston, Kansas City, Arizona and Green Bay. He went 24-for-35 on his field goal attempts over 20 career NFL games. <\/p>\n
Winnipeg inks DL Ceresna<\/p>\n
WINNIPEG \u2014 The Blue Bombers have signed American defensive lineman Jake Ceresna to a two- year contract after acquiring his rights from the Edmonton Elks. <\/p>\n
The 31-year-old Ceresna is coming off an injury-plagued 2025 campaign with the Elks where he finished the season with 16 defensive tackles, one sack and one interception in 11 games.<\/p>\n
He has 46 sacks across his CFL career, including a career-high 12 in 2023 with the Elks.<\/p>\n
The six-foot-four, 295-pound Ceresna also has 201 defensive tackles, seven forced fumbles and one interception across seven seasons in the league.<\/p>\n
Redblacks re-sign global DL Ta\u2019ala<\/p>\n
OTTAWA \u2014 The Ottawa Redblacks have re-signed global defensive lineman Blessman Ta\u2019ala.<\/p>\n
Ta\u2019ala, 26, played 17 games last season for Ottawa, registering 16 defensive tackles and four sacks. The American Samoa product has played 47 games over three seasons with the Redblacks (2023-25), registering 30 total tackles, six sacks and one forced fumble.<\/p>\n
Elks extend national fullback Plamondon<\/p>\n
EDMONTON \u2014 National fullback Jacob Plamondon is staying in Edmonton, signing a one-year extension with the Elks.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old from Red Deer, Alta., has played all four seasons of his CFL career for Edmonton, recording 21 special tackles over 51 regular-season games.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 6, 2026.<\/p>\n
The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grant has 13 return touchdowns over 72 regular-season games, and has averaged 13.3 yards per punt return and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[879,49,48,521,522,2467,520,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-462867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-cfl","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462867","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=462867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}