Courtesy Calgary Herald:

Ken-Yon Rambo never had a doubt.

“I made my decision last year,” the 29-year-old receiver revealed after signing a multi-year contract extension Tuesday with the Calgary Stampeders. “I like this organization, the whole staff is great, I like the receivers I’m with and you’ve got to assume the team will be great.

“I just didn’t want to leave the team.”

Rambo, who was due to enter his option year, appears to be hitting the peak of his pro football days.

The 2001 draft choice of the Oakland Raiders marked a career-high 62 catches for 983 yards while tying clubmate Jeremaine Copeland and Saskatchewan’s D.J. Flick for most touchdown receptions at 10.

Needless to say, the Stamps are happy in the knowledge they’ll have the six-foot-one, 207-pounder around for a few more campaigns.

“I’m probably more pleased today than I was in the off-season because I’ve seen Ken-Yon in person,” head coach John Hufnagel said with a smile following a two-hour practice at McMahon Stadium. “He’s a great player, so it’s a great situation for this football team.

“He’s very talented and hopefully we can use his talents to the utmost.”

Rambo is rocking out of a wide-out position this year after playing as a slotback and he hasn’t missed a beat.

“It’s cool. I like it,” said one of the club’s free-agent signings of 2005. “I can move around where they want me to go, so I like the W position now. But I just want to go out and do my job . . . when the ball comes, make the play, and if it’s a running play, make the block.

“Anything to help the team out I want to do.”

Hufnagel likes what he’s seen of the Californian on the wide side of the offence.

“He was very keen on the change,” submitted the coach. “He’s embraced it and doing very well with it.”

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