{"id":166535,"date":"2025-09-24T17:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166535\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:15:10","slug":"week-16-rourke-earns-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166535\/","title":{"rendered":"WEEK 16 \u2013 ROURKE EARNS PLAYER OF THE WEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TORONTO (September 24, 2025) \u2013 Nathan Rourke, Andrew Chatfield Jr. and the Ottawa REDBLACKS\u2019 offensive line have made the grade for Week 16 in the Canadian Football League (CFL) Honour Roll powered by Pro Football Focus (PFF).<\/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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Each week, 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, including the newly added Returner, will form the All-Week team. Offensive and defensive players must play a minimum of 25 snaps to be eligible and special teams players must play 10. Kickers, punters and returners do not have eligibility requirements. Ties will be broken by the number of snaps played.<\/p>\n

CFL HONOUR ROLL \u2013 WEEK 16: OFFENCE<\/p>\n

QB | Nathan Rourke | BC Lions | BC 52 \u2013 CGY 23<\/a><\/p>\n

PFF Player Grade: 93.420-of-24 passing (83.3 per cent) for 331 yards; moved past Russ Jackson (3,641) for most passing yards by a Canadian quarterback in a single season (3,935) and past Doug Flutie (9,579) for eighth on BC\u2019s all-time passing list (9,819)Two touchdown passes and zero interceptionsSix carries for 43 yards; leads all QBs with 424 rushing yards on the seasonMatched career-high in rushing TDs (three); seven on the season to sit second among QBs156.8 efficiency rating\u00a0<\/p>\n

CFL HONOUR ROLL \u2013 WEEK 16: DEFENCE<\/p>\n

DL | Andrew Chatfield Jr. | Toronto Argonauts | MTL 21 \u2013 TOR 19<\/a><\/p>\n

PFF Player Grade: 88.938 total defensive snaps<\/p>\n

CFL HONOUR ROLL \u2013 WEEK 16: OFFENSIVE LINE<\/p>\n

Ottawa REDBLACKS | WPG 26 \u2013 OTT 18<\/a><\/p>\n

PFF unit grade: 72.4Top-3 performers:Jacob Ruby | 72.6Dino Boyd | 67.4Peter Godber | 65.8<\/p>\n

CFL HONOUR ROLL: ALL-WEEK 16<\/p>\n

QB | Nathan Rourke | BC | 93.4RB | Zander Horvath | BC | 79.7REC | Keon Hatcher Sr. | BC | 90.9OL | Jacob Ruby | Ottawa | 72.6DL | Andrew Chatfield Jr. | Toronto | 88.9LB | Adarius Pickett | Ottawa | 85.3DB | Deatrick Nichols| Winnipeg | 78.4RET | Erik Brooks | Calgary | 82.9K\/P | Marc Liegghio | Hamilton | 85.4ST | Jake Kelly | Winnipeg | 91.9<\/p>\n

2025 TOP GRADES (OFF\/DEF) \u2013 TOP 10
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99.3 | W9 | DL | Willie Jefferson | Winnipeg93.4 | W15 | QB | McLeod Bethel-Thompson | Montreal93.4 | W16 | QB | Nathan Rourke | BC93.2 | W11 | QB | Nathan Rourke | BC93.0 | W7 | QB | Trevor Harris | Saskatchewan92.6 | W7 | DB | Destin Talbert | Hamilton92.6 | W14 | RB | Justin Rankin | Edmonton92.2 | W15 | REC | Tyson Philpot | Montreal91.6 | W13 | DL | Malik Carney | Saskatchewan91.6 | W3 | QB | Davis Alexander | Montreal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (September 24, 2025) \u2013 Nathan Rourke, Andrew Chatfield Jr. and the Ottawa REDBLACKS\u2019 offensive line have made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-166535","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\/166535","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=166535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}