{"id":165589,"date":"2025-09-24T07:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/165589\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T07:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:05:13","slug":"alouettes-qb-davis-alexander-expects-to-start-friday-after-practising-with-first-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/165589\/","title":{"rendered":"Alouettes QB Davis Alexander expects to start Friday after practising with first team"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Montreal Alouettes quarterback Davis Alexander scores against the Toronto Argonauts on July 17, the last time he took the field before his injury-enforced absence.Christopher Katsarov\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Davis Alexander expects to be ready to return Friday. And this time, he says he\u2019s better prepared to stay on the field.<\/p>\n

In a welcome sight for the Montreal Alouettes, the starting quarterback practised with the first team Tuesday, putting him on track to play after a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the plan,\u201d Alexander said after hardly missing a throw during the afternoon session at Stade H\u00e9bert. \u201cThat\u2019s where we\u2019re at right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Head coach Jason Maas said the team will monitor Alexander closely as he ramps up his workload before deciding on his status for Friday\u2019s home matchup against the Calgary Stampeders.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut today was a big step,\u201d Maas said. \u201cDavis was ready to go, it\u2019s just now [about] how he feels after it.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if he\u2019s ready to go, he\u2019s playing, he\u2019ll start. We just got to look at it [Wednesday] more than anything. Just see how he felt completely, but the expectation is he can go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexander \u2014 who rose from third-stringer to face of the franchise \u2014 hasn\u2019t played since July 17. He re-aggravated his injury in a 21-19 win over the Toronto Argonauts and was placed on the six-game injured list.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old from Gig Harbor, Wash., first hurt his hamstring June 20 against the Edmonton Elks and missed the next two games. He then returned against Toronto, perhaps prematurely.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing into that Toronto game, I myself definitely rushed back,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t do much sprint work going up into that game. Right now, we\u2019re on week four of me doing sprint work. And yeah, I feel as confident as since before camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel night and day better, and it\u2019s just something that I\u2019ll just continue to attack, continue to rehab, continue until the season\u2019s over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexander said his rehab routine includes \u201cthree, four, sometimes five\u201d treatments a day, and up to three workouts. He added he has felt healthy enough to play for around 10 days.<\/p>\n

The Alouettes have struggled in his absence, posting a 3-7 record while shuffling through McLeod Bethel-Thompson, third-stringer Caleb Evans and fourth-stringer James Morgan. But Montreal has won two straight with Bethel-Thompson under centre.<\/p>\n

Alexander, meanwhile, is 8-0 as a starter in the CFL, matching Danny McManus\u2019s CFL record of eight straight victories to begin a career.<\/p>\n

The five-foot-11, 210-pound Alexander could have a chance to finally set a new mark when Montreal (7-7) hosts Calgary (8-5).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tough,\u201d he said of watching from the sidelines. \u201cBut honestly, every single day, everybody in the organization kept me going. I saw the way that those guys played every single game, every single practice. They gave it their all.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just did my part, and our medical staff was incredible and just helped guide me through it, helped keep me motivated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Montreal Alouettes quarterback Davis Alexander scores against the Toronto Argonauts on July 17,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,521,875,522,520,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-165589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadian-news","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165589","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=165589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}