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Source: Colts DL Stewart inks $30.75M extension

INDIANAPOLIS — The Colts have signed defensive lineman Grover Stewart to a contract extension, the team announced Saturday.

The extension is a three-year, $30.75 million deal, a source confirmed.

Stewart, who was picked in the fourth round of the 2017 draft out of Albany State (Georgia), was scheduled to be an unrestricted free agent this offseason.

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Stewart has seen his playing time increase in each of the past two seasons. He started 13 games last season and has started all 10 games this season.

Stewart, who lines up alongside of DeForest Buckner on the interior part of the defensive line, has 36 tackles for the NFL’s second-ranked defense.

One of the keys to Stewart’s success this season has been his continued weight loss. He’s gone from entering the NFL at nearly 350 pounds to getting down to around 310 pounds.

“I felt that if I lost weight that I could move quicker and still have my strength,” Stewart said. “I always want to move like a little guy … always consider myself small, so losing weight was a big thing for me. I gained muscle and dropped a lot of fat, so I really helped myself out in the long run.”

Soccer

Workers denounced for taking selfies next to Maradona's open casket

Diego Maradona’s agent and lawyer, Matias Morla, vowed to take legal action after three workers at a funeral parlor took photos next to the football icon’s open casket on Thursday.

“For the memory of my friend, I won’t rest until he pays for such an atrocity,” Morla said, as translated by BBC News.

The funeral parlor, located in Buenos Aires, hired the three men to help prepare the coffin following Maradona’s death Wednesday at the age of 60.

Two pictures emerged online showing the men smiling with their thumbs up near Maradona’s deceased body, which was later honorably laid on display at the presidential palace for public viewing.

“We are devastated. The family trusted us. We have been working with them for a long time,” Matias Picon, manager of the funeral parlor, said.

“The (Maradona) family has total confidence in us, that’s why we are so affected.

“My father is 75 years old and he is crying, I am crying, my brother too, we are destroyed.”

Maradona’s ex-wife was “furious” after she was told about the incident, according to Picon.

The Argentine legend was buried Thursday during a private ceremony.

Various reports suggest at least one of the workers has been fired.