{"id":731058,"date":"2026-06-12T02:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/731058\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T02:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:38:32","slug":"argonauts-sign-wr-kevin-mital-to-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/731058\/","title":{"rendered":"Argonauts sign WR Kevin Mital to contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mital will continue to wear double blue.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian receiver has inked a one-year contract extension with the Toronto Argonauts that carries through the 2027 season, the CFL team <a href=\"http:\/\/The former Laval Rouge et Or (2020-2023) won the Hec Creighton Award, the Vanier Cup, and the Vanier Cup MVP in 2022.\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth-overall pick in the 2024 CFL Draft, Mital, 27, tied for the league lead with 102 catches last year and had 886 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The native of Saint-Hubert, Que., became the first Canadian Argonaut and fifth overall to reach the 100-catch mark in a season.<\/p>\n<p>Mital won the Hec Creighton Award as top player in U Sports football, the Vanier Cup and the Vanier Cup MVP in 2022 with the Laval Rouge et Or.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am thrilled to sign this extension in Toronto,&#8221; Mital said in a statement. &#8220;I love competing here, I love the city, and I want to bring another Grey Cup home where it belongs; for my family, my teammates, this organization, and our fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Argos play the Montreal Alouettes in their season opener on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Mital will continue to wear double blue. The Canadian receiver has inked a one-year contract extension with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-731058","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\/731058","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=731058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}