{"id":269290,"date":"2025-11-08T05:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/269290\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T05:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:16:14","slug":"devin-veresuks-pick-six-vs-montreal-was-the-biggest-single-play-of-our-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/269290\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Veresuk’s pick-six vs. Montreal was the ‘biggest single play of our season’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Devin Veresuk made a quite the impact in his first-ever start in the Canadian Football League.<\/p>\n

The rookie, who was drafted second overall in this year\u2019s draft, had impressed the Ticats enough that they decided to move on from their starting middle linebacker, Kyle Wilson, two games into the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Enter: Veresuk.<\/p>\n

Against the Montreal Alouettes, the same team he is playing in this weekend\u2019s Eastern Final, Veresuk picked off McLeod Bethel-Thompson and returned it all the way to the house for his first career pick-six.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still say he had the biggest single play of our season, when he had the pick-six in his first start here in game three,\u201d said head coach Scott Milanovich, just one day before the winner-takes-all matchup.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s learning on the job. He\u2019s doing a great job. He\u2019s going to be a really good player.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The six-foot-two, 240-pounder had an excellent rookie season, earning him East Division nominee for Most Outstanding Rookie. He made plays all over the Ticats\u2019 defence this year, racking up 67 defensive tackles, an interception (as mentioned he returned for a major), two sacks, a forced fumble, and a fumble recovery.<\/p>\n

Veresuk now faces his biggest challenge yet in his first playoff game. He\u2019ll be looking to help contain Davis Alexander, who not only can stretch the field, but he can also use his legs to move the chains. In last week\u2019s Eastern Semi-Final, Alexander threw five passes over 30+ yards and had a touchdown on the ground in his team\u2019s win. His mobility can turn broken plays into first downs, and Veresuk will be needed to read and react and stop Alexander if he gets to the second level.<\/p>\n

Can he replicate his pick-six this weekend?<\/p>\n

With a trip to the 112th Grey Cup on the line, the rookie middle linebacker and his Tiger-Cats host the Alouettes in the Eastern Final at Hamilton Stadium. Kickoff is slated for 3:00 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devin Veresuk made a quite the impact in his first-ever start in the Canadian Football League. The rookie,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-269290","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\/269290","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=269290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}