{"id":754749,"date":"2026-06-23T00:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754749\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T00:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:57:09","slug":"3-canadians-record-tds-for-winning-teams-in-week-3-of-cfl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754749\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Canadians record tds for winning teams in Week 3 of CFL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Kiam-Schaffer-Baker-226x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\"  \/>Kian Schaffer-Baker (Cmm3, Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n<p>Week three is now complete for the 2026 Canadian Football League regular season and three Canadians recorded a touchdown for a winning team. They were Hamilton Tiger-Cats wide receiver Kiondre Smith of Scarborough, Ontario, Tiger-Cats wide receiver Kurleigh Gittens Jr. of Ottawa, Ontario, and Saskatchewan Roughriders wide receiver Kian Schaffer-Baker of Mississauga, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Smith had a 56 yard touchdown catch from quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell on Friday to open the scoring at the 59 second mark of the first quarter in a 41-27 Tiger-Cats win over the British Columbia Lions at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton, Ontario. He finished the game with two catches for 72 receiving yards.<\/p>\n<p>Gittens Jr. had a 23 yard touchdown pass from Mitchell at the 21 second mark of the fourth quarter. At the time, the Tiger-Cats went up 41-12. Gittens Jr. finished the game with four catches for 43 receiving yards. With the win, the Tiger-Cats improved to a record of two wins and one loss, and are in a first place tie in the East Division with the Montreal Alouettes.<\/p>\n<p>Schaffer-Baker had two touchdown catches on Saturday in a 40-37 Saskatchewan Roughriders overtime win over the Calgary Stampeders at McMahon Stadium. His first touchdown catch was 53 yards from quarterback Trevor Harris at 10:12 of the second quarter. At the time, the Roughriders went up 17-7. Schaffer-Baker\u2019s second touchdown catch was four yards from Harris with 13 seconds left in the second quarter. At the time, the Roughriders went up 23-7. Schaffer-Baker finished the game with eight catches for 130 receiving yards. With the win, the Roughriders improved to a record of two wins and zero losses.<\/p>\n<p>For the season, Smith has 13 catches for 239 receiving yards and three touchdowns. Gittens Jr. has 12 catches for 110 receiving yards and one touchdown, and Schaffer-Baker has 19 catches for 295 receiving yards and two touchdown catches.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kian Schaffer-Baker (Cmm3, Wikimedia Commons) Week three is now complete for the 2026 Canadian Football League regular season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-754749","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\/754749","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=754749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}