MONTREAL — Head coach Jason Maas had a message for Walter Fletcher after the running back signed a one-year extension with the Montreal Alouettes in February.

The Alouettes’ No. 1 running back spot was going to be up for grabs with William Stanback leaving, but Fletcher wouldn’t be handed the position on a platter.

“You have to work for it,” Fletcher said of Maas’s phone call Monday after Alouettes practice at Stade Hebert. “Come in and work and we’ll see what happens.”