{"id":121480,"date":"2025-09-05T09:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121480\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:36:13","slug":"honour-roll-vernon-adams-jr-takes-home-player-of-the-month-for-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121480\/","title":{"rendered":"Honour Roll: Vernon Adams Jr. takes home Player of the Month for August"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2013 Vernon Adams Jr., Willie Jefferson<\/a> and the Calgary Stampeders\u2019 offensive line have earned full marks for August in the Canadian Football League (CFL) Honour Roll powered by Pro Football Focus (PFF). The selections include all appearances from Weeks 9 to 13.<\/p>\n

PFF utilizes extensive review of game footage to provide additional context for every action on the field. Highly-trained PFF staff breakdown every game, player and play to provide over 200 unique data points, which are used to compile Player Grades \u2013 a numerical representation up-to-100 of performance at their specific position. For more information on PFF, Player Grades, the Grading Scale and more, please visit pff.com\/grades.<\/p>\n

Each month, the highest individual Player Grades on offence and defence, as well as the highest graded offensive line, will be recognized in the CFL Honour Roll. The best individual performers by Player Grade from each of ten position groups will form the All-Month team. Offensive and defensive players must play a minimum of 75 snaps to be eligible and special teams players must play 25. Returners must make 10 returns to be eligible, while kickers and punters do not have eligibility requirements. Ties will be broken by the number of snaps played.<\/p>\n

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CFL HONOUR ROLL \u2013 AUGUST: OFFENCE<\/p>\n

QB | Vernon Adams Jr. | Calgary (3-1 in August; 8-3 overall)<\/p>\n

PFF Player Grade (Three games): 90.7
\n44-for-68 passing (64.7 per cent)
\n684 passing yards to six touchdowns
\nIn Week 10: 17-of-24 passing (76.7 per cent) for 300 yards, two touchdowns, and zero interception
\nEarned Player of the Week Honours (Week 10)<\/p>\n

Honourable mentions:<\/p>\n

CFL HONOUR ROLL \u2013 AUGUST: DEFENCE<\/p>\n

DL | Willie Jefferson<\/a> | Winnipeg (3-2 in August; 6-5 overall)<\/p>\n

PFF Player Grade (five games): 90.5
\n224 total defensive snaps
\nTwo defensive tackles, one sack and a forced fumble
\nEight pass knockdowns; league-leading 11 on the season
\n89.2 Grade on 161 pass rush snaps
\nEarned Player of the Week Honours in Week 9 with a PFF grade of 99.3; highest PFF Grade since CFL began grading<\/p>\n

Honourable mentions:<\/p>\n

87.8 | DL | Jaylon Hutchings | Calgary
\n85.5 | DL | Malik Carney<\/a> | Saskatchewan<\/p>\n

CFL HONOUR ROLL \u2013 AUGUST: OFFENSIVE LINE<\/p>\n

Calgary Stampeders (3-1 in August; 8-3 overall)<\/p>\n

PFF unit grade: 69.0
\nTop-3 performers:<\/p>\n

CFL HONOUR ROLL \u2013 ALL AUGUST<\/p>\n

QB | Vernon Adams Jr. | Calgary | 90.7
\nRB | Justin Rankin | Edmonton | 85.2
\nREC | Keon Hatcher Sr. | BC | 80.0
\nOL | Jarell Broxton<\/a> | BC | 75.5
\nDL | Willie Jefferson<\/a> | Winnipeg | 90.5
\nLB | Wynton McManis<\/a> | Toronto | 76.4
\nDB | Kobe Williams | Edmonton | 79.8
\nRET | Trey Vaval | Winnipeg | 86.6
\nK\/P | Sergio Castillo<\/a> | Winnipeg | 94.7
\nST | Tyrell Richards<\/a> | Montreal | 90.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2013 Vernon Adams Jr., Willie Jefferson and the Calgary Stampeders\u2019 offensive line have earned full marks for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-121480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}