CFL

2022 Grey Cup MVP Henoc Muamba re-signs with Argonauts for 3rd season

Henoc Muamba will help the Toronto Argonauts defend their Grey Cup title after the veteran Canadian linebacker re-signed with the CFL club on Monday.

Veteran Canadian linebacker posted 75 tackles and 3 sacks in 17 games last season

Men's football player holds the ball with two hands while running down the field.
Argonauts linebacker Henoc Muamba has re-signed with the team after being named top Canadian and MVP of its 24-23 Grey Cup victory over the Blue Bombers. (Christopher Katsarov/Canadian Press)

Henoc Muamba will help the Toronto Argonauts defend their Grey Cup title.

The veteran Canadian linebacker re-signed with the Canadian Football League club on Monday. Muamba, 33, became a free agent on Feb. 14.

The six-foot, 230-pound linebacker capped the 2022 season in impressive fashion, being named the top Canadian and MVP of Toronto's 24-23 Grey Cup victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He became just the second player to record the historic double, joining Argos running back Andrew Harris (2019 with Winnipeg).

Muamba, entering his 11th CFL season and third with Toronto, had 75 tackles, three sacks and two interceptions in 17 regular-season games in 2022. He was named the league's top Canadian in 2017 while with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Muamba was the first player taken in the 2011 CFL draft by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and was a league all-star two years later.

He has appeared in 135 CFL regular-season games, registering 592 tackles, 78 special-teams tackles, 17 sacks, eight interceptions, 14 forced fumbles and one touchdown.

In other Argos news, American receiver Markeith Ambles has re-signed after hauling in 72 passes for 737 yards and five TDs last season, his first with the club.

Ambles spent the previous three seasons with Calgary (2018-19, 2021), winning a Grey Cup title in his first year with the Stampeders.

The Argos also signed American receivers Tanner Gentry and B.J. Byrd.

WATCH | Argos take down Blue Bombers for 18th Grey Cup title: 

Argonauts hold off Blue Bombers for Grey Cup victory

2 years ago
Duration 1:24
Toronto used a late score and blocked field goal to clinch a 24-23 win over Winnipeg in the 109th Grey Cup.

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