{"id":740580,"date":"2026-06-16T13:42:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/740580\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:42:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:42:56","slug":"argos-extend-receiver-kevin-mital-through-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/740580\/","title":{"rendered":"Argos extend receiver Kevin Mital through 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2013 The Toronto Argonauts announced on Thursday that Canadian receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/kevin-mital\/168778\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ga-category=\"Clicks - Article\" data-ga-action=\"article-player-link\" data-ga-opt-label=\"Kevin Mital\">Kevin Mital<\/a> has signed an extension to stay in Double Blue through 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled to sign this extension in Toronto,\u201d said Mital. \u201cI 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>RELATED<br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/06\/09\/amsoil-power-rankings-whos-at-the-top-after-a-week-of-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/06\/09\/amsoil-power-rankings-whos-at-the-top-after-a-week-of-action\/\" aria-label=\"AMSOIL Power Rankings: Who\u2019s at the top after a week of action? - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->AMSOIL Power Rankings: Who\u2019s at the top after a week of action?<\/a><br \/>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/06\/09\/3-storylines-to-watch-in-week-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/06\/09\/3-storylines-to-watch-in-week-2\/\" aria-label=\"3 storylines to watch in Week 2 - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->3 storylines to watch in Week 2<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/06\/09\/weekly-predictor-who-wins-in-week-2-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/06\/09\/weekly-predictor-who-wins-in-week-2-2\/\" aria-label=\"Weekly Predictor: Who wins in Week 2? - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->Weekly Predictor: Who wins in Week 2?<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/06\/09\/prediction-time-cfl-ca-writers-week-2-picks-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/06\/09\/prediction-time-cfl-ca-writers-week-2-picks-5\/\" aria-label=\"Prediction Time: CFL.ca writers\u2019 Week 2 picks - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->Prediction Time: CFL.ca writers\u2019 Week 2 picks<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/tickets\" aria-label=\"Buy tickets for the 2026 CFL season - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->Buy tickets for the 2026 CFL season<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Subscribe to the CFL\u2019s newsletter for exclusive offers and league updates - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/newsletter\/\" data-uw-original->Subscribe to the CFL\u2019s newsletter for exclusive offers and league updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mital is coming off his best season as a pro after 102 receptions for 886 yards and two touchdowns. His 102 catches made him the first Canadian Argonaut player to reach the 100-catch milestone, and Mital became the fifth Boatmen player, regardless of nationality, to reach the mark. The Quebec native tied for the league lead in receptions in 2025, the first time an Argonaut has done so since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/chad-owens\/115154\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ga-category=\"Clicks - Article\" data-ga-action=\"article-player-link\" data-ga-opt-label=\"Chad Owens\">Chad Owens<\/a> in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Mital joined the Argos in 2024 after being selected fifth overall in that year\u2019s CFL Canadian Draft and helped the team win a Grey Cup in his first year, eventually scoring his first CFL touchdown in the big game.<\/p>\n<p>The former Laval Rouge et Or (2020-2023) won the Hec Creighton Award, the Vanier Cup, and the Vanier Cup MVP in 2022. The receiver was First-Team All-Canadian in 2022, Second-Team in 2021, and a conference All-Star in 2021, 2022, and 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2013 The Toronto Argonauts announced on Thursday that Canadian receiver Kevin Mital has signed an extension to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-740580","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\/740580","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=740580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}