Damien Alford and Vernon Adams Jr. both made early exits Thursday in the Calgary Stampeders’ 23-21 loss\u00a0against the Montreal Alouettes.<\/p>\n
The Stampeders offence took its first hit when Alford, 24,\u00a0left\u00a0the game\u00a0in the first quarter\u00a0after bringing\u00a0in a seven-yard catch. The Montreal native attempted to make a move on his defender, planting his foot\u00a0into the turf before\u00a0falling\u00a0awkwardly. 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
Things got even more dire for Calgary after\u00a0Adams was sidelined following a hard hit from a pair of Tyrice Beverette while escaping\u00a0the pocket near in the third quarter. The nine-year veteran took a moment to get back on his feet and was assessed for a head injury.\u00a0He\u00a0was replaced by PJ Walker for the remainder of the contest.<\/p>\n
Adams completed 15-of-25 attempts for 193 yards and a touchdown before departing.<\/p>\n
Alford, the first overall pick in the 2025 draft, and Adams\u00a0have\u00a0shown immediate rapport in their short time together, connecting on\u00a012 passes\u00a0for 300 yards and five touchdowns.<\/p>\n
The pair’s absence was too much to overcome as the Stampeders failed to score a point in the fourth quarter en route to the loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Damien Alford and Vernon Adams Jr. both made early exits Thursday in the Calgary Stampeders’ 23-21 loss\u00a0against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-22969","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\/22969","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=22969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}