{"id":233935,"date":"2025-10-23T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/233935\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:20:14","slug":"former-jmu-cb-spence-signs-contract-with-cfls-montreal-allouettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/233935\/","title":{"rendered":"Former JMU CB Spence signs contract with CFL\u2019s Montreal Allouettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former James Madison All-American cornerback Terrence Spence has signed his first professional football contract, inking a deal with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.<\/p>\n<p>HARRISONBURG, Va. (JMU Athletics) \u2013 Former James Madison All-American cornerback Terrence Spence has signed his first professional football contract, inking a deal with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.<\/p>\n<p>Spence will join Montreal at the conclusion of the postseason, ahead of the 2026 CFL season.<\/p>\n<p>In his lone season with the Dukes, Spence was named a 2024 Football Writers Association of America Second Team All-American and a College Football Network Third Team All-American after tying for the Sun Belt lead and ranking in the top five nationally in interceptions (5).<\/p>\n<p>Spence had one pick-six while also tallying 38 tackles, a half tackle for loss, one forced fumble, seven breakups and a pair of blocked kicks.<\/p>\n<p>He was additionally selected as JMU\u2019s first semifinalist for the Paycom Jim Thorpe Award and was a First Team All-Sun Belt defensive back.<\/p>\n<p>Spence joined JMU after a four-year career at Holy Cross (2020-23), where he was a 2023 Second Team All-Patriot League selection and accrued four interceptions, 18 pass breakups and six blocks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JMU Athletics \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former James Madison All-American cornerback Terrence Spence has signed his first professional football contract, inking a deal with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-233935","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\/233935","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=233935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}