![]() Maxie with the Edmonton Elks in 2025 | |
Edmonton Elks | |
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Position | Special teams coordinator Defensive assistant |
CFL status | American |
Personal information | |
Born | Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S. | October 18, 1973
Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
Weight | 270 lb (122 kg) |
Career information | |
College | Texas-El Paso |
Career history | |
Playing | |
1995 | Baltimore Stallions |
1996 | Montreal Alouettes |
1996–1999 | Toronto Argonauts |
2000–2001 | Saskatchewan Roughriders |
2002 | Toronto Argonauts |
2003–2007 | Calgary Stampeders |
Coaching | |
2016–2017 | Edmonton Eskimos (Linebackers coach) |
2018–2023 | Edmonton Eskimos / Elks (Defensive line coach) |
2024 | Toronto Argonauts (Defensive line coach) |
2025–present | Edmonton Elks (Special teams coordinator, Defensive assistant) |
Awards and highlights | |
Stats at CFL.ca (archive) |
Demetrious Maxie (born October 18, 1973) is the special teams coordinator and defensive assistant for the Edmonton Elks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He is a former professional gridiron football defensive end.
While playing with the Baltimore Stallions, Maxie won the only Grey Cup by a non-Canadian team, and followed with two wins with the Toronto Argonauts.
Maxie first served as the linebackers coach for the Edmonton Eskimos in 2016. He then moved to the defensive line in 2018 and served in that capacity until 2023. [1]
On January 22, 2024, it was announced that Maxie had joined the Toronto Argonauts to serve as their defensive line coach. [2] He won the 111th Grey Cup in his first year with the Argonauts.
On January 10, 2025, the Edmonton Elks announced that Maxie was named the team's special teams coordinator and defensive assistant. [3]