{"id":208679,"date":"2025-10-13T01:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208679\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T01:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:05:32","slug":"second-round-cfl-draft-pick-nate-beauchemin-returns-for-montreal-alouettes-on-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208679\/","title":{"rendered":"Second-round CFL Draft pick Nate Beauchemin returns for Montreal Alouettes on Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.3downnation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MG_2216-1-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"Photo courtesy:  Bob Butrym\/RFB Sport Photography\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MG_2216-1-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Nate Beauchemin\"\/><\/a>Photo courtesy:  Bob Butrym\/RFB Sport Photography<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Alouettes will be making only minor tweaks to their lineup ahead of the annual Thanksgiving Day clash with the Ottawa Redblacks.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Canadian linebacker Nate Beauchemin returns to the lineup after sitting out the last eight games with a hand injury. The reigning Presidents\u2019 Trophy winner as the top defensive player in U Sports was selected 14th overall in the second round of the 2025 CFL Draft and has recorded six special teams tackles plus one on defence in seven games played.<\/p>\n<p>American rookie linebacker Caleb Johnson will also make his CFL debut in a depth capacity. American defensive end M.J. Sherman has been demoted to the practice roster, while rookie Canadian linebacker Riley MacLeod is listed as a healthy scratch.<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Alouettes (8-7) will host the Ottawa Redblacks (4-11) at Percival Molson Stadium on Monday, October 13 with kickoff slated for 1:00 p.m. EDT.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/2025\/10\/04\/same-old-issues-doom-ottawa-redblacks-in-elimination-loss-to-saskatchewan-10-other-thoughts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Redblacks were eliminated from playoff contention<\/a>\u00a0with a loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders this past week, while the Alouettes were on a bye.<\/p>\n<p>The weather forecast in Montreal calls for a high of 18 degrees with a mix of sun and cloud. The game will be broadcast on TSN and RDS in Canada, CBS Sports Network in the United States, and CFL+ internationally. Radio listeners can tune-in on TSN 1200 in Ottawa and TSN 690 in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-196772 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AlouettesDepthW19.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1534\" height=\"1013\"  \/>Graphic courtesy: Montreal Alouettes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy: Bob Butrym\/RFB Sport Photography The Montreal Alouettes will be making only minor tweaks to their lineup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-208679","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\/208679","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=208679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}