{"id":247580,"date":"2025-10-29T09:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/247580\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:38:17","slug":"alouettes-starter-alexanders-record-setting-mark-not-impacted-in-playoffs-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/247580\/","title":{"rendered":"Alouettes starter Alexander\u2019s record-setting mark not impacted in playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The five-foot-11, 210-pound Alexander was 7-0 this season \u2014 his first as Montreal\u2019s full-time starter. He won his first four contests in 2024 filling in for injured starter Cody Fajardo.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761730697_160_indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Montreal signed Alexander to a three-year extension last November. The Alouettes then confirmed Alexander as their starter by dealing Fajardo to the Edmonton Elks for veteran quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander, 27, completed 158-of-218 passes (72.5 per cent) for 2,024 yards with 10 touchdowns and three interceptions this season. He also ran 12 times for 108 yards (9.2-yard) and a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal (10-8) was certainly a different team with Alexander than it was without him, going 3-8 in games Alexander didn\u2019t start. Bethel-Thompson was 3-5 under centre while James Morgan (0-2) and Caleb Evans (0-1) were the other starters.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander twice missed significant time this season with a hamstring ailment.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander was originally slated to start Montreal\u2019s regular-season finale Saturday in Winnipeg. But Bethel-Thompson got the nod after the Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeated the Ottawa Redblacks 35-15 on Friday night to clinch first in the East Division.<\/p>\n<p>Bethel-Thompson finished 17-of-34 passing for 182 yards and an interception in Winnipeg\u2019s 19-10 home victory.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 27, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Ralph, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The five-foot-11, 210-pound Alexander was 7-0 this season \u2014 his first as Montreal\u2019s full-time starter. He won his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-247580","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\/247580","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=247580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}