![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Tak20260907-Calgary-Stampeders-vs-Edmonton-Elks-mens-football-0076-scaled.jpg\")
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto: Blair Takahashi\/COACHTAK\/3DownNation. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n
Calgary Stampeders kicker Rene Paredes is retiring at the end of the 2026 season, he announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis wasn\u2019t easy, but I\u2019ve made the decision that this season will be my last,\u201d said Paredes in a statement. \u201cPlaying for the city of Calgary has been such an honour, and I cannot wait to finish the year strong. Looking back on my journey, there is so much to be grateful for. I look forward to properly thanking those who have made an impact on my career.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 41-year-old originally joined the Red and White as a free agent in 2011. He is the team\u2019s longest-serving active player and ranks second in franchise history in seasons played (15), regular-season games played (253), points scored (2,535), field goals made (649), and converts made (547).<\/p>\n
3DownNation Newsletter<\/p>\n
\t\tToday\u2019s CFL news in your inbox every day at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n
\t\tBy signing up you agree to receive daily emails from 3DownNation, as well as our The native of Caracas, Venezuela, who was raised in Pierrefonds, Que., has made 649-of-740 career field goal attempts (87.7 percent) and 547-of-578 convert attempts (94.6 percent). He has also made 13 walk-off game-winning field goals, the most recent of which came on Sept. 19 from a career-long distance of 62 yards against the Ottawa Redblacks.<\/p>\n The Concordia University product is a five-time All-CFL selection, six-time All-West Division selection, and two-time Grey Cup champion. He was also named the CFL\u2019s Most Outstanding Special Teams Player in 2013.<\/p>\n The Calgary Stampeders (8-8) will visit the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (7-8) on Saturday, October 10 with kickoff scheduled for 7:00 p.m. EDT. The Stampeders are coming off a 37-31 upset win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders, while Winnipeg got crushed by the Montreal Alouettes.<\/p>\n The game will be broadcast on TSN in Canada and CFL+ internationally. Radio listeners can tune-in on 770 CHQR in Calgary or 680 CJOB in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\tterms of service<\/a> and
\n\t\tprivacy policy<\/a>. Unsubscribe anytime.
\n\t\t1900 Rose St, Regina SK S4P 0A9.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791321131_985_0603-3Down-logo-600x600.jpg\"){kind=logo}
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3DownNation-Wordmark-v3-3.svg\"\/)
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Blair Takahashi\/COACHTAK\/3DownNation. All rights reserved. Calgary Stampeders kicker Rene Paredes is retiring at the end of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[166835,166836,49,2798,48,7028,520,527,144333,252083,92476,1705,55630,166838],"class_list":["post-923212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-3down","tag-3downnation","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-cfl","tag-football","tag-kicker","tag-rene-paredes","tag-retire","tag-retirement","tag-stampeders","tag-stamps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923212","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=923212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}