{"id":267800,"date":"2025-11-07T13:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/267800\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:09:25","slug":"ticats-linebacker-stubblefield-fondly-remembers-his-time-with-montreal-alouettes-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/267800\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticats\u2019 linebacker Stubblefield fondly remembers his time with Montreal Alouettes \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

HAMILTON \u2013 They\u2019ll be the enemy Saturday, but Reggie Stubblefield still has much fondness for his time with the Montreal Alouettes.<\/p>\n

The veteran linebacker began his CFL career in 2023 helping Montreal win the Grey Cup. But on Saturday, he\u2019ll be donning Hamilton Tiger-Cats colours against his former team in the East Division final at Hamilton Stadium.<\/p>\n

The winner will advance to the Grey Cup, which will be held Nov. 16 at Princess Auto Stadium in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMontreal Alouettes defensive back Reggie Stubblefield (35) dodges a tackle from Toronto Argonauts wide receiver Dejon Brissett (18) after making an interception during second half CFL Eastern Division final football action in Toronto, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Frank Gunn<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just with those guys the last two years so we have a special relationship,\u201d Stubblefield told reporters this week. \u201cWe won (a) championship together and that\u2019s something you can never take from what we built.\u201d<\/p>\n

The five-foot-11, 192-pound Stubblefield spent two seasons with Montreal, registering 42 tackles, four special-teams tackles, three sacks, two interceptions and one forced fumble in 14 games. But after starting 13 contests in 2023 \u2014 and earning the Alouettes\u2019 nomination as their top rookie \u2014 Stubblefield suffered a season-ending torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in the Alouettes first game of the \u201924 campaign after recording four tackles and one special-teams tackle.<\/p>\n

He signed a three-year deal with Hamilton in the off-season as a free agent but didn\u2019t make his Ticats debut until their 23-20 home win over Ottawa on July 12 \u2014 a span of 400 days. And Stubblefield returned with a bang, making a team-high seven tackles (one for loss).<\/p>\n

Stubblefield appeared in 14 regular-season games with Hamilton, recording 56 tackles, three sacks, an interception and forced fumble.<\/p>\n

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He began his college career at Prairie View A&M (2016-2020) before transferring to Kansas State (2021). The native Texan started six of the 12 games he played there in his final year of eligibility.<\/p>\n

Stubblefield was selected by the DC Defenders in the \u201923 XFL draft but was released by the club. Stubblefield signed with Montreal in March 2023 and was among the Alouettes final cuts but was re-signed to the practice roster following injuries to the Als\u2019 secondary.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just have a lot of respect for everybody in that organization,\u201d Stubblefield said. \u201cFrom GM Danny Maciocia down to coach (Jason) Maas and (defensive co-ordinator) Noel Thorpe.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat an amazing thing they\u2019ve built there, the culture they\u2019ve built, the connection they talk about, the compete level they talk about. It\u2019s just what makes this league great. It makes everybody else around the league better.\u201d<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 6, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAMILTON \u2013 They\u2019ll be the enemy Saturday, but Reggie Stubblefield still has much fondness for his time with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-267800","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\/267800","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=267800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}