Calgary Stampeders wide receiver Damien Alford left Thursday\u2019s Week 8 contest against the Montreal Alouettes in the first quarter after the rookie appeared to suffer a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n
Alford, 24, brought in a seven-yard catch and attempted\u00a0to plant into the turf before\u00a0falling awkwardly. He remained down on the field\u00a0and could be seen grabbing the back of his right thigh before walking off under his own power.<\/p>\n
Selected first overall by the Stampeders in the 2025 draft, Alford has shown immediate rapport with quarterback Vernon Adams Jr.\u00a0 with 12 catches for 300 yards and five touchdowns over the first six games of the season.<\/p>\n
The Montreal native played\u00a0four seasons with the Syracuse Orange before transferring to Utah for his senior season, and recorded\u00a01,291 yards and seven touchdowns on 67 receptions across\u00a046 games played in his NCAA career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgary Stampeders wide receiver Damien Alford left Thursday\u2019s Week 8 contest against the Montreal Alouettes in the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-22107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107","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=22107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}