{"id":231245,"date":"2025-10-22T06:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231245\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T06:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:36:12","slug":"week-20-rourke-earns-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231245\/","title":{"rendered":"WEEK 20 \u2013 ROURKE EARNS PLAYER OF THE WEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TORONTO (October 21, 2025) \u2013 Nathan Rourke, Levi Bell and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers\u2019 offensive line have made the grade for Week 20 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 20: OFFENCE<\/p>\n

QB | Nathan Rourke | BC Lions | EDM 24 \u2013 BC 37<\/a><\/p>\n

PFF Player Grade: 91.021-of-32 passing (65.6 per cent) for 338 yards (11th 300+ yard game this season) and one touchdownFour 30+ yard completions; leads the league with 3782 rushing yards on three attempts, including a 70-yard TD; leads all QBs in rushing yards (559) and 20+ yard rushes (seven)Fourth CFL Player of the Week Honour (Weeks 1, 11 and 16), and Player of the Month in September<\/p>\n

CFL HONOUR ROLL \u2013 WEEK 20: DEFENCE<\/p>\n

DL | Levi Bell | BC Lions | EDM 24 \u2013 BC 37<\/a><\/p>\n

PFF Player Grade: 90.044 total defensive snapsOne defensive tackle and his first career sack, resulting in a loss of four yards83.7 Grade on 30 pass rush snaps<\/p>\n

CFL HONOUR ROLL \u2013 WEEK 20: OFFENSIVE LINE<\/p>\n

Winnipeg Blue Bombers | SSK 16 \u2013 WPG 17<\/a><\/p>\n

PFF unit grade: 74.6Top-3 performers:Stanley Bryant | 74.7Chris Kolankowski | 72.8Kendall Randolph | 71.4<\/p>\n

CFL HONOUR ROLL: ALL-WEEK 20<\/p>\n

QB | Nathan Rourke | BC | 91.0RB | Dedrick Mills | Calgary | 87.7REC | Jalen Philpot | Calgary | 79.9OL | Stanley Bryant | Winnipeg | 74.7DL | Levi Bell | BC | 90.0LB | Jaiden Woodbey | Winnipeg | 87.5DB | DaMarcus Fields | Saskatchewan | 79.8RET | Janarion Grant | Toronto | 88.6K\/P | Jake Julien | Edmonton | 75.1ST | Bubba Bolden | Montreal | 90.8<\/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 | Montreal91.7 | W18 | DL | Julian Howsare | Hamilton91.6 | W13 | DL | Malik Carney | Saskatchewan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (October 21, 2025) \u2013 Nathan Rourke, Levi Bell and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers\u2019 offensive line have made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-231245","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\/231245","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=231245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}