{"id":502825,"date":"2026-02-27T10:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/502825\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:10:10","slug":"former-cfl-kicker-brett-maher-promoted-to-special-teams-coordinator-by-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/502825\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CFL kicker Brett Maher promoted to special teams coordinator by Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brett-maher-2014-3-1409962808.jpg\" data-caption=\"Photo courtesy: CFL.ca\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"639\" height=\"322\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/brett-maher-2014-3-1409962808.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Brett Maher\"\/><\/a>Photo courtesy: CFL.ca<\/p>\n<p>The University of Nebraska has promoted former CFL kicker Brett Maher to the role of special teams coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old joined the Cornhuskers as a part-time special teams consultant in 2024 and served as the full-time special teams assistant last season. He graduated from Nebraska as a player, where he was a two-time Big Ten Kicker of the Year and one-time Punter of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Maher spent four seasons in the CFL as a member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (2014), Ottawa Redblacks (2014-15, 2017) and Hamilton Tiger-Cats (2016). He made 107-of-137 field goal attempts (78.1 percent), while punting 368 times for an average of 45.8 yards. He was named an East Division all-star in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The native of Fremont, Neb., has since been a member of the New York Jets (2013, 2020), Dallas Cowboys (2013, 2018-19, 2022), Cleveland Browns (2017), Washington Commanders (2020), Houston Texans (2020), Arizona Cardinals (2020-21), New Orleans Saints (2021), Denver Broncos (2023), and Los Angeles Rams (2023). He has connected on 111-of-139 career NFL field goal attempts (79.9 percent) with a long of 63 yards, while adding 141 extra points for a total of 474 career points.<\/p>\n<p>The Cornhuskers went 7-6 last season, finishing 11th in the Big Ten. They ended the year with a loss to Utah in the Las Vegas Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy: CFL.ca The University of Nebraska has promoted former CFL kicker Brett Maher to the role of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[173755,166835,166836,200776,49,48,7028,521,522,520,6404,527,15655,2002,6403,514,20739,70504,82],"class_list":["post-502825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-rnation","tag-3down","tag-3downnation","tag-brett-maher","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-cornhuskers","tag-football","tag-hamilton-tiger-cats","tag-league","tag-nebraska","tag-nfl","tag-ottawa","tag-redblacks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502825","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=502825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}