Toronto Argonauts receiver Damonte Coxie earned CFL Player of the Week honours after grabbing eight catches for a season-high 161 yards in the team\u2019s 33-30 victory over the Calgary Stampeders in Week 10.<\/p>\n
The fifth-year player is putting together the best season of his career with 42 catches for 685 and two touchdowns through his first eight games.<\/p>\n
His performance last week helped the Argonauts win their second game in a row in their home opener to move to 4-4, a game and a half ahead of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats for second place in the East Division.<\/p>\n
Coxie joined First Up on TSN1050 on Thursday morning to discuss the win in the home opener, his performance in the game and his expectations moving forward for the Argonauts.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was great getting back home, first home game in a long time, we\u2019ve been on the road all season,\u201d Coxie said. \u201cIt felt great to get back home and play in front of our fans – it was great for us, great for our fans, great that we took the chance to get a win. We can\u2019t complain, we missed BMO [Field].\u201d<\/p>\n
The Argonauts were displaced from BMO Field while the venue was hosting matches in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, forcing the Boatmen to hold camp and practice in Guelph and play on the road for the first two months of the year. <\/p>\n
Toronto played its first seven games of the season as visitors – an unusual scheduling quirk that some players<\/a> and coaches<\/a> experienced differently than others.<\/p>\n Coxie viewed it as a positive that helped the team come together. <\/p>\n \u201cWe were already mentally prepared for being on the road for the actual travel. Sometimes we were playing back-to-back, but that\u2019s normal, but I guess I just assumed that because we didn\u2019t play an away game, then a home game, then another away game that it was the same but all away games? You gotta really stick together as a team,\u201d Coxie said. \u201cThat\u2019s what I liked the most about it; even though we were on the road the whole time we always stayed together as a team, no matter what the outcome was.\u201d<\/p>\n The Argonauts lead all CFL teams in passing yards per game (347.8) with Chad Kelly back under centre. The former Most Outstanding Player missed all of the 2025 season while rehabbing a severe leg injury suffered in the 2024 East Final.<\/p>\n Coxie credited the return of Kelly in helping energize the passing attack, saying that he likes to attack downfield, but lauds the receiver group in Toronto that features a number of productive targets.<\/p>\n Coxie, Makai Polk and Kevin Mital are all over 500 yards through eight games, with David Ungerer just behind them at 481 yards.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you have dynamic guys it\u2019s good because it takes the pressure off each other,\u201d Coxie said. \u201cIt\u2019s like, if I know [one guy\u2019s] snapping this week, somebody else is going to go off next week, or we can all go off in the same game. We like the competition because we\u2019re competing with everybody else and ourselves, so it\u2019s more of like, we want to see how far we can go. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s like we feed off of each other. It\u2019s hard to stop because if one gets rolling, it\u2019s like we all made that catch, so it\u2019s like a fire that just burns and once one person gets caught on fire all you need to do is just touch the next guy. The guys in our room, they\u2019re some really good guys, off the field and on.\u201d<\/p>\n The Argonauts play five of their final 10 games at home, are on a two-game winning streak and sit in the second playoff spot in the East Division. Coxie has already won two Grey Cups with the Argonauts, could a third be possible this year if the team stays hot?<\/p>\n \u201cIf God\u2019s got that in his plans for me then I definitely pray that we do,\u201d Coxie said, laughing. \u201cI feel like we\u2019re going to handle our business each day at a time, and I see us competing with the best, as long as we handle our jobs one day at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n The next job to handle is a trip to Edmonton to take on the Elks (6-3), who sit a half-game behind the Saskatchewan Roughriders for the top spot in the West Division, on Saturday.<\/p>\n