The Montreal Alouettes signed American running back Eno Benjamin on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Benjamin played in two games for the Calgary Stampeders this season, totalling 80 kickoff-return yards, 43 punt-return yards and seven rushing yards. The 26-year-old was released by Calgary last week.<\/p>\n
After playing college ball at Arizona State University, the five-foot-nine, 207-pound Benjamin was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the seventh round of the 2020 NFL draft.<\/p>\n
He compiled 431 rushing yards with three touchdowns on 111 carries, and 235 receiving yards on 31 receptions, in 24 games with the Cardinals, Houston Texans and New Orleans Saints.<\/p>\n
Benjamin joins the Alouettes (5-7) amid a five-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
Montreal visits the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Saturday. Saskatchewan (10-2) boasts the CFL’s best record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Alouettes signed American running back Eno Benjamin on Tuesday. Benjamin played in two games for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-131491","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\/131491","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=131491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}